卦

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卦 U+5366, 卦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5366
← 卥
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 卧 →

Translingual

Han character

卦 (Kangxi radical 25, 卜+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土土卜 (GGY), four-corner 43100, composition ⿰圭卜)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 158, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2798
  • Dae Jaweon: page 362, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 94, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5366

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 卦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 卦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
s02375
Transcribed ancient scripts
L23863
L23864
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
街 *kreː, *kreː
鞋 *ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾 *ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
佳 *kreː
鮭 *ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯 *ŋreː, *ŋre
崖 *ŋreː, *ŋre
啀 *ŋreː
厓 *ŋreː
捱 *ŋreː
睚 *ŋreːs
娃 *qreː
洼 *qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇 *qreː, *qʷraː
胿 *ɡeː, *kʷeː
溎 *qeːns
觟 *ɡʷraːʔ
黊 *ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳 *ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
蛙 *qʷraː, *qʷreː
窪 *qʷraː
卦 *kʷreːs
挂 *kʷreːs
掛 *kʷreːs
詿 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
罣 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓 *kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
鼃 *ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
圭 *kʷeː
珪 *kʷeː
邽 *kʷeː
閨 *kʷeː
袿 *kʷeː
窐 *kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
茥 *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
桂 *kʷeːs
筀 *kʷeːs
奎 *kʰʷeː
刲 *kʰʷeː
蝰 *kʰʷeː
楏 *kʰʷeː
睳 *qʰʷeː
畦 *ɡʷeː
眭 *ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
烓 *qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬 *kʰʷeʔ
恚 *qʷes
硅 *qʰʷreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷreːs) : phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː) + semantic 卜. However, the phonetic component has a reference to a ritual since it represents a pair of ritual axes perhaps made of jade.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • 5kua - literary;
  • 5ko - vernacular.
Rime
Character 卦
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (32)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古賣切
Baxter kweaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠuɛH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwaɨjH/
Li
Rong 		/kuɛH/
Wang
Li 		/kwaiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kwaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guà
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwaai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 卦
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guà
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwɛH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷˁre-s/
English prognosticate with Achillea

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 卦
Reading # 1/1
No. 4556
Phonetic
component 		圭
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		卦
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷreːs/

Definitions

卦

  1. divinatory trigram or hexagram of the I Ching
    卦辭／卦辞  ―  guàcí  ―  hexagram statement in the I Ching
    卦限  ―  guàxiàn  ―  octant (eight divisions of a Euclidean three-dimensional coordinate system)
  2. † to divine
  3. † to change
  4. † Alternative form of 掛／挂 (guà)

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

卦

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: け (ke)
  • Kan-on: かい (kai)
  • Kan’yō-on: か (ka)
  • Kun: うらかた (urakata)

Noun

卦(け) • (ke) 

  1. divination symbol or sign

Korean

Hanja

卦 (eum 괘 (gwae))

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Vietnamese

Han character

卦: Hán Nôm readings: quái

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