期頤

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Chinese

a period of time; phase; stage
a period of time; phase; stage; (used for issue of a periodical, courses of study); time; term; period; to hope
 
cheeks; nourish
trad. (期頤)
simp. (期颐)

Etymology

From the Book of Rites, Book 1 (《禮記·曲禮上》):

二十三十。……百年
二十三十。……百年
From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
Rén shēng shí nián yuē yòu, xué. Èrshí yuē ruò, guàn. Sānshí yuē zhuàng, yǒu shì....... Bǎinián yuē , .
When one is ten years old, we call him a boy; he goes (out) to school. When he is twenty, we call him a youth; he is capped. When he is thirty, we say, 'He is at his maturity;' he has a wife. At a hundred, he is called a centenarian, and has to be fed.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (30) (36)
Final () (19) (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gi yi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨ/ /jɨ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡɨ/ /jɨ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡie/ /ie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gɨ/ /jɨ/
Li
Rong
/ɡiə/ /iə/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭə/ /jĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/gi/ /i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kei4 ji4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gi › ‹ yi ›
Old
Chinese
/*(r)ə/ /*(r)ə/
English period of time chin

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 # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 9935 9949 14884
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯ/ /*ɡɯ/ /*lɯ/
Notes

Noun

期頤

  1. (literary, of a person) one hundred years of age

Derived terms

References

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

()() (kii

  1. (literary, of a person) one hundred years of age

References

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

期頤 (gii) (hangeul 기이)

  1. hanja form? of 기이