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U+8075, 聵
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8075

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 128, +12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中一金 (SJLMC), four-corner 65186, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29175
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8075

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *ŋɡruːds) : semantic (ear) + phonetic (OC *kluds).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (34)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter ngweajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋˠuɛiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋʷᵚæiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋuɐiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋwəɨjH/
Li
Rong
/ŋuɛiH/
Wang
Li
/ŋwɐiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋwăiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngaai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
kuì
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngwɛjH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁruj-s/
English deaf

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 # 1/1
No. 4729
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋɡruːds/

Definitions

  1. (literary) deaf
  2. (literary) muddleheaded

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. deaf

Readings

  • On (unclassified): がい (gai) (ge)かい (kai)
  • Kun: つんぼ (tsunbo)

Korean

Hanja

(oe) (hangeul , revised oe, McCune–Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

  1. deaf