憩

憩 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP) or 難竹山心 (XHUP), four-corner 2433₇, composition ⿱⿰舌自心)

1. rest, take rest

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11246
• Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2350, character 11
• Unihan data for U+61A9

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : abbreviated 恬 (“tranquil”) + 息 (“rest”). There is also the possibility that 憩 is phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰrads) , with 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd) as the phonetic component.

Possibly related to 歇 (OC *qʰad) (Wang, 1982).

憩

1. (literary) to rest

   小憩  ―  xiǎoqì  ―  to rest for a bit; to take a breather

   • 一心仰望，同心禱祈，相愛共享天憩。 [MSC, trad.]
     一心仰望，同心祷祈，相爱共享天憩。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1982 , translation by 羅炳良 and 王培英, 樂哉家庭 , in 《生命聖詩》

     Yīxīn yǎngwàng, tóngxīn dǎoqí, xiāng'ài gòngxiǎng tiān qì.

     When one their wish and one their prayer And one their heav'nly rest.

• “憩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. break
2. rest period
3. rest
4. leisure

• Go-on: かい (kai)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kun: いこい (ikoi, 憩い, Jōyō)^{←いこひ (ikofi, 憩ひ, historical)}、いこう (ikou, 憩う, Jōyō)^{←いこふ (ikofu, 憩ふ, historical)}、いこのう (ikonou, 憩う)^{←いこのふ (ikonofu, 憩ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

From Middle Chinese 憩 (MC khjejH).

• (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:

憩

Wikisource

憩 (eumhun 쉴 게 (swil ge))

1. hanja form^? of 게 (“to rest”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

憩: Hán Nôm readings: khệ, khị

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