愷悌

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Chinese

joyful; kind at ease
trad. (愷悌)
simp. (恺悌)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (29) (7)
Final () (41) (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter khojX dejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰʌiX/ /deiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰəiX/ /deiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɒiX/ /dɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰəjX/ /dɛjX/
Li
Rong
/kʰᴀiX/ /deiX/
Wang
Li
/kʰɒiX/ /dieiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kʰɑ̆iX/ /dʱieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
kǎi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hoi2 dai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kǎi
Middle
Chinese
‹ khojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qʰˁəjʔ/
English triumphal music; happy

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 1/2
No. 10103 2296
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ/ /*diːlʔ/

Adjective

愷悌

  1. (literary, of the mind) happy and content; at ease; peaceful and graceful