髻

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髻 U+9AFB, 髻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9AFB
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 髼 →

Translingual

Han character

髻 (Kangxi radical 190, 髟+6, 16 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹土口 (SHGR), four-corner 72601, composition ⿱髟吉)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1454, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45442
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1985, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4523, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9AFB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 髻
alternative forms 䯻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (吉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
秸 *kriːl, *kriːd
髻 *kiːds
夡 *kʰids
鴶 *kriːd
袺 *kriːd, *kiːd
頡 *kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼 *kʰriːd
硈 *kʰriːd
咭 *kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠 *ɡriːd
聐 *ŋreːd
趌 *ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結 *kiːd
拮 *kiːd, *klid
桔 *kiːd
狤 *kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷 *qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭 *ɡiːd
翓 *ɡiːd
纈 *ɡiːd
吉 *klid
郆 *kid
詰 *kʰid
蛣 *kʰid
佶 *ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚 *ɡrid
姞 *ɡrid
欯 *qʰlid
恄 *qʰlid

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kiːds) : semantic 髟 (“long hair”) + phonetic 吉 (OC *klid).

Etymology

From 結 (OC *kiːd, “to tie”) + exopassive nominal suffix *-s, literally “something tied” (Baxter and Sagart, 1997, 2014; Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • guê3 - vernacular;
  • gi3 - literary.
Rime
Character 髻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古詣切
Baxter kejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/keiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/keiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɛjH/
Li
Rong 		/keiH/
Wang
Li 		/kieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 髻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kejH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁi-s/
English hair-knot, chignon

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 髻
Reading # 1/1
No. 5669
Phonetic
component 		吉
Rime
group 		至
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		計
Old
Chinese 		/*kiːds/

Definitions

髻

  1. hair worn in a bun or coil; topknot

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

髻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

髻 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

髻: Hán Nôm readings: kế

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References

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