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魁

魁

魁 U+9B41, 魁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9B41
← 魀
[U+9B40] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 魂 →
[U+9B42]

Translingual

Han character

魁 (radical 194 鬼+4, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈卜十 (HIYJ), four-corner 24210, composition ⿺鬼斗)

  1. chief
  2. leader
  3. best
  4. monstrous

References

  • KangXi: page 1461, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45785
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1994, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4429, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+9B41

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 魁

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (鬼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謉 *tkuːlʔ, *krul
瑰 *kuːl, *ɡuːl
傀 *kuːl, *kʰuːlʔ
藱 *kuːl
魁 *kʰuːl
磈 *kʰuːlʔ, *qulʔ
塊 *kʰuːls, *kʰruːds
嵬 *ŋɡuːl, *ŋɡuːlʔ
隗 *ŋɡuːlʔ
槐 *ɡuːl, *ɡruːl
瘣 *ɡuːlʔ
廆 *ɡuːlʔ
溾 *ɡuːlʔ, *qruːl
螝 *ɡuːls, *krul
褢 *ɡruːl
騩 *krul, *kruls, *kul
愧 *kruls
媿 *kruls
聭 *kruls
餽 *ɡruls
鬼 *kulʔ
魏 *ŋɡuls
巍 *ŋul
犩 *ŋul, *ŋuls

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 魁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 苦回切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kʰuʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kʰuoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kʰuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kʰwəj/
Li
Rong		 /kʰuᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /kʰuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kʰuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 kuī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 魁 魁 魁
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 kuí kuí kuí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ khwoj › ‹ khwoj › ‹ khwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[kʰ]ˤuj/ /*[kʰ]ˤuj/ /*[kʰ]ˤuj/
English great; principal; chief spoon mound

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 魁
Reading # 1/1
No. 4663
Phonetic
component		 鬼
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 恢
Old
Chinese		 /*kʰuːl/

Definitions

魁

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Compounds

  • 魁首
  • 魁偉／魁伟 (kuíwěi)
  • 魁梧 (kuíwú)
  • 魁星

Japanese

Kanji

魁

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

魁 • ‎(goe) (hangeul 괴, revised goe, McCune-Reischauer koe, Yale koy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

魁 (khôi)

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