級

Translingual

Alternative forms

• In modern Chinese scripts, the radical component on the left is written 糹 (three dots below 幺).
• In Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, the radical component on the left is written 糸 (小 below 幺 but the middle stroke of 小 is written with a 丨 vertical stroke without bottom hook), which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In traditional Chinese and Korean hanja, the 及 component on the right contains 又, which is the historical form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
• In mainland China (for the traditional form based on Xin Zixing (新字形)), Japanese kanji and Vietnamese Nôm, the 及 component on the right does not contain 又 and is written in 3 strokes (丿 followed by ⿱乛乛 and ㇏).

Han character

級 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 糸+3 in mainland China and Japanese, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 女火弓竹水 (VFNHE), four-corner 2794₇, composition ⿰糹及)

Derived characters

• 𠺻, 𢲩(𫼾)

Related characters

• 级 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 918, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27294
• Dae Jaweon: page 1348, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3366, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7D1A

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 級
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krɯb) : semantic 糹／纟 (“thread”) + phonetic 及 (OC *ɡrɯb).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

級

1. level; rank; grade; class
2. (education) grade; form

   同級不同班／同级不同班  ―  tóng jí bù tóng bān  ―  to be in the same grade but different classes

3. step

   拾級而上／拾级而上  ―  shíjí'érshàng  ―  to walk slowly up a flight of steps

4. (literary) beheaded head
5. Classifier for steps.
6. Classifier for level, ranks, grades, etc..

Synonyms

• (grade; form):

Compounds

Etymology 2

From English cup.

Pronunciation

Definitions

級

1. (Cantonese) cup; cup size

Compounds

References

• “級”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	級
Kyūjitai	級󠄁 級+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	級󠄃 級+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū, Jōyō)^{←きふ (kifu, historical)}
• Kun: くび (kubi, 級); しな (shina, 級)
• Nanori: しな (shina)

Etymology

/kipu/ → /kiɸu/ → */kiwu/ → /kiu/ → /kyuː/.

From Middle Chinese 級 (MC kip).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) きゅ​う (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

級(きゅう) • (kyū) ^{←きふ (kifu)?}

1. rank
2. (school) a class
3. (typography) a unit equal to 1 H (ha) and 0.25 mm, abbreviated as Q, which happens to be the initial of English quarter; Q is used for font size, while ha is used for spacing

Derived terms

References

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

級

Wikisource

級 (eumhun 등급 급 (deunggeup geup))

1. Hanja form^? of 급 (“level; grade”).

Compounds

• 等級 (등급)
• 首級 (수급)
• 一級 (일급)
• 梯級 (제급)

Vietnamese

Chữ Hán

級: Hán Nôm readings: cấp, cóp, khớp, cụp

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References

• Nom Foundation