皆

Translingual

Han character

皆 (Kangxi radical 106, 白+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心心竹日 (PPHA), four-corner 2160₁, composition ⿱比白)

Derived characters

• 偕,楷,諧,階

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 786, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22699
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2647, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7686

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 皆
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Attested in bronze script as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 比 (“two people; to compare”) + 曰 (“to speak”); to compare several people, hence all. 曰 later corrupts into 白. Based on the corrupted form, Shuowen reinterprets this character as a ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 比 + 白.

Pronunciation

Definitions

皆

1. (literary) all; every; everybody

   自古皆有死  ―  zìgǔ jiē yǒu sǐ  ―  from of old, everyone is mortal (see 自古皆有死，民無信不立／自古皆有死，民无信不立 (zìgǔ jiē yǒu sǐ, mín wúxìnbùlì))

2. (Taiwan) zetta- (SI unit prefix)

   Synonym: 泽 (zé) (mainland)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō)
• Kun: みな (mina, 皆, Jōyō); みんな (minna, 皆)
• Nanori: とも (tomo); み (mi); みち (michi)

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle Chinese 皆 (MC keaj).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Affix

皆(かい) • (kai) 

1. all; every

Korean

Hanja

皆 • (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune–Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皆: Hán Nôm readings: giai

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Zhuang

Verb

皆

1. Sawndip form of gai (“to sell”)