覬

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See also: 觊
覬 U+89AC, 覬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89AC
← 覫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 覭 →

Translingual

Han character

覬 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 山廿月山山 (UTBUU), four-corner 26110, composition ⿰豈見)

  1. covet, long for, desire

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1136, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34934
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1603, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3672, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+89AC

Chinese

trad. 覬
simp. 觊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 覬
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (豈) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獃 *tŋɯː, *ŋɯː
剴 *kŋɯːl, *ŋɯːl
凱 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
愷 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
塏 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
鎧 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls
颽 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
暟 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
闓 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls
豈 *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ
隑 *ɡɯːls, *ŋɯːl
皚 *ŋɯːl
嵦 *ŋɡɯːl
敳 *ŋɯːl
磑 *ŋɯːl, *ŋuːl, *ŋuːls
螘 *ŋralʔ, *ŋɯlʔ
覬 *krɯls
溰 *ŋɯl
顗 *ŋɯlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krɯls) : phonetic 豈 (OC *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ) + semantic 見 (“to see”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 覬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 几利切
Baxter kijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kjiH/
Li
Rong 		/kjiH/
Wang
Li 		/kiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/kiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gei3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 覬
Reading # 1/1
No. 10121
Phonetic
component 		豈
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		冀
Old
Chinese 		/*krɯls/

Definitions

覬

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

覬

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. coveting high rank

Readings

  • On (unclassified): き (ki)
  • Kun: のぞむ (nozomu)

Korean

Hanja

覬 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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