軌

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See also: 轨
軌 U+8ECC, 軌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8ECC
← 軋
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 軍 →

Translingual

Han character

軌 (Kangxi radical 159, 車+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 十十大弓 (JJKN), four-corner 54017, composition ⿰車九)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1239, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38176
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1713, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3512, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8ECC

Chinese

trad. 軌
simp. 轨

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 軌
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
尻 *kʰuː
訄 *kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽 *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓 *qʰruː
鳩 *ku
勼 *ku
九 *kuʔ
究 *kus
仇 *ɡu
鼽 *ɡu
犰 *ɡu
叴 *ɡu
厹 *ɡu
頄 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹 *ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗 *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏 *ɡu
訅 *ɡu
釚 *ɡu
肍 *ɡu
軌 *kʷrɯwʔ
宄 *kʷrɯwʔ
氿 *kʷrɯwʔ
匭 *kʷrɯwʔ
泦 *kuɡ
旭 *qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷrɯwʔ) : semantic 車 + phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ).

Etymology

Borrowed from Tocharian B kwarsär and Tocharian A kursär (“league, mile”).[1]

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 軌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居洧切
Baxter kwijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kˠiuɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiuɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kjwiX/
Li
Rong 		/kjuiX/
Wang
Li 		/kwiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kwiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwai2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 軌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		guǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kwijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷruʔ/
English wheel ruts

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 軌
Reading # 1/1
No. 6958
Phonetic
component 		九
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		軌
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷrɯwʔ/

Definitions

軌

  1. rut; wheel track
  2. track; path
  3. rail

Compounds

References

  1. ^ Alexander Lubotsky (1998) “Tocharian Loan Words in Old Chinese: Chariots, Chariot Gear, and Town Building”, in The Bronze Age and Early Iron Age peoples of Eastern Central Asia, pages 379-390

Japanese

Kanji

軌

(Jōyō kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)
  • Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)
  • Kun: わだち (wadachi, 軌)、みち (michi)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

軌 (eumhun 수레바퀴 사이 궤 (surebakwi sai gwe))

  1. hanja form? of 궤 (“track, rut, path”)

Vietnamese

Han character

軌: Hán Nôm readings: quỹ, quẫy, quĩ

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