欺

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欺 U+6B3A, 欺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B3A
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 欻 →

Translingual

Han character

欺 (Kangxi radical 76, 欠+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿金弓人 (TCNO), four-corner 47882, composition ⿰其欠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 568, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16097
  • Dae Jaweon: page 956, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2142, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6B3A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 欺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 欺
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
基 *kɯ
箕 *kɯ
朞 *kɯ
稘 *kɯ
萁 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
期 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅 *kɯ, *ɡɯs
其 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤 *kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆 *kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺 *kʰɯ
娸 *kʰɯ
魌 *kʰɯ
僛 *kʰɯ
唭 *kʰɯs
棋 *ɡɯ
旗 *ɡɯ
淇 *ɡɯ
祺 *ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪 *ɡɯ
騏 *ɡɯ
綦 *ɡɯ
麒 *ɡɯ
蜞 *ɡɯ
綨 *ɡɯ
蜝 *ɡɯ
棊 *ɡɯ
碁 *ɡɯ
鯕 *ɡɯ
踑 *ɡɯ
藄 *ɡɯ
櫀 *ɡɯ
璂 *ɡɯ
禥 *ɡɯ
惎 *ɡɯs
帺 *ɡɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰɯ): phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ) + semantic 欠 (“breath”)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • kĭ - literary;
  • kiă - vernacular.
Rime
Character 欺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 去其切
Baxter khi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰɨ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰɨ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰɨ/
Li
Rong 		/kʰiə/
Wang
Li 		/kʰĭə/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hei1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 欺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		qī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khi ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰ(r)ə/
English to deceive, cheat

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 欺
Reading # 1/1
No. 9940
Phonetic
component 		其
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		欺
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰɯ/

Definitions

欺

  1. to cheat; to deceive
    欺騙／欺骗  ―  qīpiàn  ―  to deceive; to cheat
    欺詐／欺诈  ―  qīzhà  ―  to deceive; to cheat; to swindle; to defraud
    自欺欺人  ―  zìqīqīrén  ―  to deceive oneself as well as others; to fool oneself and others
  2. to bully
    欺負／欺负  ―  qīfù  ―  to bully; to push around; to pick on; to tease; to kid; to rib
    仗勢欺人／仗势欺人  ―  zhàngshìqīrén  ―  to rely on one's power to bully others; to throw one's weight around
  3. † to excel; to surpass; to be better than

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

欺

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: こ (ko)
  • Kan-on: き (ki)
  • Kan’yō-on: ぎ (gi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: あざむく (azamuku, 欺く, Jōyō)

Korean

Hanja

欺 (eumhun 속일 기 (sogil gi))

  1. hanja form? of 기 (“cheat, doublecross, deceive”)

Vietnamese

Han character

欺: Hán Nôm readings: khi

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