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U+51E0, 几
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E0

CJK Unified Ideographs
U+2F0F, ⼏
KANGXI RADICAL TABLE

Kangxi Radicals

Translingual

Stroke order
2 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 16, +0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓 (HN), four-corner 77210, composition 丿)

  1. Kangxi radical #16, .
  2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №493

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 𠘧 (U+20627) which is another radical in Shuōwén.

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 133, character 57
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1737
  • Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 275, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+51E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – a small stool viewed from the side. The original version was 𠀃, in which the horizontal stroke at the bottom represents the floor and/or the ground.

See also the bottom component of , , and , in which is the stylization of the legs of a table.

Unrelated to , in which the top component is a stylization of , representing stagnant water. Also unrelated to , , and .

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠀃

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj (foot, leg; stool). Compare Tibetan ཁྲི (khri) and Burmese ခြေ (hkre).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (28)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kjijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kiX/
Li
Rong
/kiX/
Wang
Li
/kiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gei2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.krjʔ/
English stool

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1
No. 5760
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*krilʔ/

Definitions

  1. stool; chair
  2. long narrow table; bench
  3. small table
      ―  chá  ―  tea table
Descendants
Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (ki)
  • Korean: 궤(几) (gwe)
  • Vietnamese: kỉ ()

Others:

  • Vietnamese: ghế (chair)

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“how much; how many; what; which; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“man; person; people; a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“bright; light; brilliant; clear; limpid; etc.”).
(This character is an ancient form of ).

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 𠘧 (“Refers to the wings of a bird in flight.; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 𠘧).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. table, table enclosure
  2. table or wind radical

Readings

  • Go-on: (ki)
  • Kan-on: (ki)
  • Kun: つくえ (tsukue, )
  • Nanori: おしまずき (oshimazuki)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 안석 (anseok gwe))

  1. back rest
  2. desk

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: kỉ

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