契

契 U+F909, 契 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F909 ← 龜 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 金 →

契 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手竹大 (QHK), four-corner 5743₂, composition ⿱㓞大(GHTKV) or ⿱𭃌大(J))

• 偰, 喫, 𭛸, 𢝛, 揳, 𣸲, 猰, 楔, 𤋸, 𤧃, 𦝜, 碶, 禊, 稧, 褉, 𦩣, 𧩶, 䝟, 𧼪, 𨂰, 鍥(锲), 𩴅, 䱮
• 㓶, 𨜒, 䚉(𬢐), 𨜣, 䫔, 𪃈, 㝣, 葜, 𪰳, 窫, 𩮁, 𤟐, 瘈, 䦬

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 251, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5917
• Dae Jaweon: page 513, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 536, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5951

• Unihan data for U+F909

Historical forms of the character 契
Shang	Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 㓞 (, “to engrave”) + semantic 大 (“person”), hence a person making an agreement and/or carving something with a knife.

Perhaps a variant of 栔 or viceversa, given that the two characters were used interchangeably in ancient text.

Exopassive of 鍥 (OC *keːd, *kʰeːd, “to cut”): "what has been cut" (Schuessler, 2007).

契

1. contract; deed
2. to agree; to conform with; to tally with
3. (literary) to carve; to engrave
4. (literary) carved writing; engraved writing
5. (Cantonese, Southern Min) adopted; adoptive; foster; sworn; nominal

   契細佬／契细佬 [Cantonese]  ―  kai³ sai³ lou²   ―  blood brother; sworn younger brother

6. (Cantonese) to form a nominal kinship with; to adopt
   • 1952, 唐龍, directed by 潘炳權, 契爺艷史 [Foster-Daddy's Romantic Affairs]‎, spoken by 阿紅 (紅線女 [Hung Sin Nui]):

     寒叔想契我真係求之不得呢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     寒叔想契我真系求之不得呢。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     hon⁴ suk¹ soeng² kai³ ngo⁵ zan¹ hai⁶ kau⁴ zi¹ bat¹ dak¹ ne¹.

     Uncle Hon wants to adopt me as a goddaughter; this is all I can wish for.

契

1. Only used in 契丹 (Qìdān, “the Khitans”).

契

1. Xie (ancestor of the kings of the Shang dynasty)

契

1. ^† Used in 契闊／契阔 (qièkuò, “assiduous; separate; etc.”).
2. ^† Alternative form of 挈 (“to take; to carry”)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00864
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “契”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 262.

Shinjitai	契
Kyūjitai [1][2][3]	契 契 or 契+︀?
	契󠄁 契+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	契󠄅 契+󠄅? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
	契󠄂 契+󠄂? (Adobe-Japan1)
	契󠄄 契+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji)

1. pledge (allegiance)
2. commit oneself
3. promise (loyalty)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khejH); compare Mandarin 契 (qì):

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khet); compare Mandarin 契 (qiè):

• Go-on: けち (kechi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC set); compare Mandarin 契 (xiè):

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: ちぎる (chigiru, 契る, Jōyō)、あう (au, 契う)^{←あふ (afu, 契ふ, historical)}、ちぎり (chigiri, 契り)、きざむ (kizamu, 契む)、わりふ (warifu, 契)
• Nanori: ちぎり (chigiri)、ちぎる (chigiru)、ひさ (hisa)

契(ひさし) • (Hisashi) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khejH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

契

Wikisource

契 (eumhun 맺을 계 (maejeul gye))

1. hanja form^? of 계 (“contract, bond; deed; engrave”)
2. hanja form^? of 계 (“a Korean rotating savings and credit association”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khet).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

契 (eumhun 애쓸 결 (aesseul gyeol))

1. (literary) hanja form^? of 결 (“to be assiduous; to work hard; to toil”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khj+t).

契 (eumhun 부족 이름 글 (bujok ireum geul))

1. (historical) hanja form^? of 글 (“a tribe name”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC set).

契 (eumhun 사람 이름 설 (saram ireum seol))

1. hanja form^? of 설 (“used in personal names”)
2. (historical) hanja form^? of 설 (“Xie (ancestor of the kings of the Shang dynasty)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.
• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 23.

契: Hán Nôm readings: khế, khé, khè, khía, khít, khẻ, khẽ, khịt

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