憩

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See also: 憇
憩 U+61A9, 憩
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61A9
← 憨
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 憪 →

Translingual

Han character

憩 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP) or 難竹山心 (XHUP), four-corner 24337, composition ⿱⿰舌自心)

  1. rest, take rest

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11246
  • Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2350, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+61A9

Chinese

trad. 憩
simp. # 憩
alternative forms 憇

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : abbreviated 恬 (“tranquil”) + 息 (“rest”). There is also the possibility that 憩 is phono-semantic (形聲／形声, OC *kʰrads) , with 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd) as the phonetic component.

Etymology

Possibly related to 歇 (OC *qʰad) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

Note: tim5 - nonstandard.
Rime
Character 憩
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 祭 (37)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去例切
Baxter khjejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰˠiᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰᵚiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰiæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰjiajH/
Li
Rong 		/kʰjɛiH/
Wang
Li 		/kʰĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kʰi̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khjejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.qʰ<r>a-s/
English rest (v.)

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 憩
Reading # 1/1
No. 10174
Phonetic
component 		憩
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		憩
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰrads/
Notes 從恬息省會意

Definitions

憩

  1. (literary) to rest
    小憩  ―  xiǎoqì  ―  to rest for a bit; to take a breather

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

憩

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. break
  2. rest period
  3. rest
  4. leisure

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 憩 (MC khjejH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

憩 (eumhun 쉴 게 (swil ge))

  1. Hanja form? of 게 (“to rest”).

Compounds

Compounds

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

憩: Hán Nôm readings: khệ, khị

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References

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