溪

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See also: 渓 and 谿
溪 U+6EAA, 溪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EAA
← 溩
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 溫 →

Translingual

Han character

溪 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月女大 (EBVK), four-corner 32134, composition ⿰氵奚)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17967
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1047, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1702, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6EAA

Chinese

trad. 溪
simp. # 溪
alternative forms 谿
豀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奚) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謑 *qʰraːs, *qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
膎 *ɡreː
鞵 *ɡreː
榽 *ɡreː, *ɡeː
鷄 *keː
雞 *keː
谿 *kʰeː
嵠 *kʰeː
溪 *kʰeː
磎 *kʰeː
螇 *kʰeː, *ɡeː
鸂 *kʰeː
奚 *ɡeː
豯 *ɡeː
徯 *ɡeː, *ɡeːʔ
蹊 *ɡeː
騱 *ɡeː
傒 *ɡeː
鼷 *ɡeː
蒵 *ɡeː, *ɡeːs
貕 *ɡeː
慀 *ɡeːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰeː) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 奚 (OC *ɡeː).

Etymology 1

Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *gle, whence Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao tl̥e (“river”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Tibetan རྐ (rka, “gutter; channel”) (Sagart, 2020b).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • khoe - vernacular;
    • khe - literary.
Rime
Character 溪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 溪 (29)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 苦奚切
Baxter khej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kʰei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʰei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kʰɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kʰɛj/
Li
Rong 		/kʰei/
Wang
Li 		/kʰiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kʰiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hai1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 溪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ khej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰˁe/
English valley with stream in it

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 溪
Reading # 1/1
No. 13360
Phonetic
component 		奚
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		谿
Old
Chinese 		/*kʰeː/
Notes 同谿

Definitions

溪

  1. stream; creek; brook; rivulet; rill (Classifier: 條／条 m c)
  2. (dialectal) river (Classifier: 條／条 mn)
    濁水溪／浊水溪 [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  Lô-chúi-khe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  Zhuoshui River
  3. (Eastern Min) unsophisticated; gauche; stupid
  4. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 溪 (MC khej)
  5. a surname: Xi
See also

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 溪 – see 谿 (“used in compounds”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 谿).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

渓

Kyūjitai

溪

Kanji

溪

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 渓)

  1. valley

Readings

  • Go-on: け (ke)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: たに (tani, 溪)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 溪 (MC khej). Recorded as Middle Korean 계 (kyey) (Yale: kyey) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

溪 (eumhun 시내 계 (sinae gye))

  1. hanja form? of 계 (“stream”)

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

溪: Hán Nôm readings: khe, khê

  1. Creek or stream
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