寄

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

寄 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十大一口 (JKMR), four-corner 3062₁, composition ⿱宀奇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 288, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7203
• Dae Jaweon: page 569, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 937, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5BC4

Chinese

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krals) : semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 奇 (OC *kral, *ɡral) ― living away from home.

Etymology

"to commit to one's charge" (Lunyu), "to entrust, communicate" (Liji), > "send (a letter)"

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Compare Burmese ခိုက် (hkuik, “bring”) & Mizo khai (“to give, to present”)

"translator, interpreter" > "an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty"

Behr (2004) proposes that 寄 (OC *krals) and its variant 羈 (OC *kral) (used by Gao You when annotating Lüshi Chunqiu) both transcribed an underlying foreign word.

Pronunciation

Definitions

寄

1. to entrust (with a task)
2. to depend on; to adhere to
3. to live away from home
4. to place (temporarily); to put; to deposit
5. to express or convey (one's feelings) through a medium, such as the thing one describes, composes or paints
6. to transmit (an item) on behalf of another person; to send (now chiefly through mail); to post
7. to use temporarily; to borrow
8. to grant; to gift; to bestow
9. (historical) government official in charge of translating from and into the speech of non-Chinese ethnic groups in China's east (Dongyi)

   • 達其志，通其欲：東方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰譯。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     达其志，通其欲：东方曰寄，南方曰象，西方曰狄鞮，北方曰译。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Dá qí zhì, tōng qí yù: dōngfāng yuē jì, nánfāng yuē xiàng, xīfāng yuē dídī, běifāng yuē yì.

     To make what was in their minds apprehended, and to communicate their likings and desires, (there were officers) - in the east, called transmitters; in the south, representationists; in the west, Di-dis; and in the north, interpreters.

10. (historical) to send criminals into exile to the remote areas in the east, as a form of punishment
11. (of a relative) not biological; adopted
12. (historical) an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty
13. (online gaming slang) gg, defeat
14. (Internet slang, by extension) to be defeated
15. a surname: Ji

Synonyms

• (to entrust):

• (to depend on):

Compounds

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: gửi

Further reading

• “Entry #7160”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to contribute, to donate
2. to call on
3. to lodge at somebody else's house
4. to be dependent on somebody
5. to increase, to gain
6. to draw near
7. to send away

Readings

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: よる (yoru, 寄る, Jōyō); よせる (yoseru, 寄せる, Jōyō); よせ (yose, 寄); よそる (yosoru, 寄る); よそう (yosou, 寄う); よそえる (yosoeru, 寄える); よさる (yosaru, 寄さる); よさす (yosasu, 寄さす)

Compounds

• 寄(き)付(ふ) (kifu, “donation”)
• 寄(き)贈(ぞう) (kizō, “donation”)
• 寄(き)生(せい) (kisei)
• 寄(き)与(よ) (kiyo)
• 寄(よせ)席(せき) (yoseseki)
• 寄(より)道(みち) (yorimichi)
• 年(とし)寄(より) (toshiyori)

Korean

Hanja

寄 (eumhun 부칠 기 (buchil gi))

1. Hanja form^? of 기 (“send, transmit, mail”).
2. Hanja form^? of 기 (“rely on”).

Kunigami

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: ゆしーるん (yushīrun, 寄しーるん)

Okinawan

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ゆしーん (yushīn, 寄しーん)

Vietnamese

Han character

寄: Hán Nôm readings: kí, gửi, ké, kẹ, ký

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Yaeyama

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

• Kun: ゆしぃるん (yusïrun, 寄しぃるん)