圭

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See also: 丰
圭 U+572D, 圭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-572D
← 圬
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 圮 →

Translingual

Stroke order
6 strokes

Han character

圭 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土土 (GG), four-corner 40104, composition ⿱土土)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 224, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4887
  • Dae Jaweon: page 456, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 418, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+572D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 圭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 圭
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions
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

Pictogram (象形) : 士 + 士 – two ritual axes, perhaps made of jade, one on top of the other. Duplication of 士. Stylized into but unrelated to 土; according to folk etymologies, it's a reduplication of the character 土.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 圭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (40)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 古攜切
Baxter kwej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kwei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kuɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwɛj/
Li
Rong 		/kuei/
Wang
Li 		/kiwei/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kiwei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guī
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwai1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 圭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ʷˁe/
English jade scepter

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 圭
Reading # 1/1
No. 4569
Phonetic
component 		圭
Rime
group 		支
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		圭
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷeː/

Definitions

圭

  1. jade pointed at top
  2. (historical) jade tablet used by officials when addressing the emperor in court
    See also: 珪
  3. (historical) gui (type of ancient Chinese sundial)
  4. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

圭

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. square jewel
  2. corner
  3. angle
  4. edge

Readings

Compounds

Proper noun

圭(けい) • (Kei) 

  1. a unisex given name

Korean

Hanja

圭 (eum 규 (gyu))

  1. jade pointed at top

Vietnamese

Han character

圭: Hán Nôm readings: quê, khoai, khuê, que

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