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U+8857, 街
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8857

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes

Han character

(Kangxi radical 144, +6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土土弓 (HOGGN), four-corner 21104, composition or )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34051
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 831, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+8857

Chinese

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kreː, *kreː) : semantic + phonetic (OC *kʷeː).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-wa (village) (STEDT); see (OC *rɯʔ, “village”) for more.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • koe/ke/kere - vernacular;
  • kai - literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kai⁴⁴/
/t͡ɕiɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie²¹/
/kai²¹/
Jinan /t͡ɕiɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /kɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kɛ⁴⁴/
/t͡ɕie⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kɛ³¹/
Ürümqi /kai⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kai⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kai⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kai⁵⁵/
Kunming /kæ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Hefei /t͡ɕie̞²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕie̞¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ka⁵³/
Suzhou /kɑ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕie̞³³/
Wenzhou /ka³³/
Hui Shexian /ka³¹/
Tunxi /ka¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kai³³/
Xiangtan /kai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kai⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ke⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ke²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kai⁵⁵/
Nanning /kai⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kai⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kai⁵⁵/
/kue⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kɛ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /kai⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /koi³³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /kɔi²³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (31) (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II II
Fanqie
Baxter kea keaj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛ/ /kˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæ/ /kᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen
/kæi/ /kɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kaɨj/ /kəɨj/
Li
Rong
/kɛ/ /kɛi/
Wang
Li
/kai/ /kɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kai/ /kăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiā jiē
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaai1 gaai1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiē
Middle
Chinese
‹  ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁre/
English road-crossing

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4527 4532
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreː/ /*kreː/
Notes

Definitions

  1. (countable) street (Classifier: m c)
      ―  jiējǐng  ―  street scene
    地下  ―  dìxiàjiē  ―  underground street
    大把 [Cantonese, trad.]
    大把 [Cantonese, simp.]
    haang4 lok6 loeng5 tiu4 gaai1 daai6 baa2 je5 sik6.
    If you walk two blocks down the street, there will be a lot to eat.
  2. market; fair
  3. Short for 街道 (jiēdào, “subdistrict”).
    新港  ―  Xīngǎng Jiē  ―  Xingang Subdistrict
  4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) distance; margin (Classifier: c)
    [Cantonese]  ―  jeng4 gau2 tiu4 gaai1   ―  to win by a large margin (literally, “to win with a distance of nine street blocks”)
  5. (Hong Kong Cantonese) outside; the public
    外人 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai1 ngoi6 jan4   ―  outsider
    [Cantonese]  ―  gaai1 zing3   ―  outpatient clinic
  6. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • Bouyei: gaail
  • White Hmong: kev
  • Zhuang: gai

References

Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. main street or boulevard

Readings

  • Go-on: (ke)
  • Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō )
  • Kan’yō-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
  • Kun: まち (machi, , Jōyō)

Pronunciation

Noun

(まち) (machi

  1. Alternative spelling of

Derived terms

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC kea|keaj). Recorded as Middle Korean (kay) (Yale: kay) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

  • (street; road):
  • (in 街道 and 街頭):
    • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
    • Phonetic hangul:
      • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 거리 (geori ga))

  1. hanja form? of (street; road)

Compounds

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: nhai

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