馗

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馗 U+9997, 馗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9997
← 首
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 馘 →

Translingual

Han character

馗 (Kangxi radical 185, 首+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大弓廿竹山 (KNTHU), four-corner 48016, composition ⿺九首)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1428, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44492
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1954, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4501, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9997

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 馗
2nd round simp. ⿺九刀
alternative forms 𠃳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尻 *kʰuː
訄 *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓 *qʰruː
鳩 *ku
勼 *ku
九 *kuʔ
究 *kus
仇 *ɡu
鼽 *ɡu
犰 *ɡu
叴 *ɡu
厹 *ɡu
頄 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹 *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏 *ɡu
訅 *ɡu
釚 *ɡu
肍 *ɡu
軌 *kʷrɯwʔ
宄 *kʷrɯwʔ
氿 *kʷrɯwʔ
匭 *kʷrɯwʔ
泦 *kuɡ
旭 *qʰʷoɡ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 馗
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠追切
Baxter gwij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡˠiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡʷᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gjwi/
Li
Rong 		/ɡjui/
Wang
Li 		/ɡwi/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gwi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		kuí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kwai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 馗
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		kuí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ gwij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷru/
English thoroughfare

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 馗
Reading # 2/2
No. 6963
Phonetic
component 		九
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		逵
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡʷrɯw/
Notes 集韻改渠龜切

Definitions

馗

  1. (literary) Alternative form of 逵 (kuí, “thoroughfare”)
  2. Used in personal names.
Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 馗
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巨鳩切
Baxter gjuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/guw/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiu/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qiú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		kau4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 馗
Reading # 1/2
No. 6952
Phonetic
component 		九
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		𧚍
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡu/

Definitions

馗

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Japanese

Kanji

馗

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. road

Readings

  • Go-on: ぎ (gi)、ぐ (gu)
  • Kan-on: き (ki)、きゅう (kyū)
  • Kun: ほおぼね (hōbone)、みち (michi)、かくれる (kakureru)

Korean

Hanja

馗 • (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune–Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

  1. cheekbone
  2. path, road
  3. intersection

Vietnamese

Han character

馗: Hán Việt readings: quỳ[1]

  1. chữ Hán form of quỳ.

References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).

Zhuang

Noun

馗

  1. Sawndip form of gyaeuj (“head; headhair”)
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