葺

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葺 U+847A, 葺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-847A
← 葹
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 葻 →

Translingual

Han character

葺 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿口尸十 (TRSJ), four-corner 44401, composition ⿱艹咠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1047, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31465
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1508, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3247, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+847A

Chinese

trad. 葺
simp. # 葺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (咠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楫 *ʔseb
檝 *ʔseb, *zib
湒 *ʔsib
咠 *ʔsib, *sʰib
葺 *ʔsib, *sʰib, *zib
緝 *sʰib
諿 *sʰib
輯 *zib
箿 *zib
蕺 *ʔsrib
戢 *ʔsrib
濈 *ʔsrib
霵 *ʔsrib, *zrib
揖 *qib

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 葺 葺
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 清 (14) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 緝 (141) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 七入切 子入切
Baxter tship tsip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡sʰiɪp̚/ /t͡siɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡sʰip̚/ /t͡sip̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡sʰjep̚/ /t͡sjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/t͡sʰip̚/ /t͡sip̚/
Li
Rong 		/t͡sʰiəp̚/ /t͡siəp̚/
Wang
Li 		/t͡sʰĭĕp̚/ /t͡sĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡sʰi̯əp̚/ /t͡si̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qi ji
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		cap1 zap1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 葺 葺 葺
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 10156 10158 10164
Phonetic
component 		咠 咠 咠
Rime
group 		緝 緝 緝
Rime
subdivision 		2 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		㗱 緝 集
Old
Chinese 		/*ʔsib/ /*sʰib/ /*zib/
Notes 集韻葺箿同

Definitions

葺

  1. (literary) to thatch a roof
  2. to fix; to repair
  3. (literary) to accumulate; to pile

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

葺

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
葺
ぶ(き)
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

From the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 葺(ふ)く (fuku). The fuki changes to buki as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Suffix

葺(ぶき) • (-buki) 

  1. roofing; roofed with; thatching; thatched with; shingling; shingled with

Korean

Hanja

葺 (eum 즙 (jeup))

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