鍵

鍵 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 金弓大手 (CNKQ), four-corner 8514₀, composition ⿰釒建)

• 𧃑

• 键 (Simplified Chinese)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1315, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40654
• Dae Jaweon: page 1815, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4225, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9375

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡran, *ɡranʔ, *ɡanʔ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 建 (OC *kans) – a metal key.

鍵

1. ^† door bolt, lock bolt
2. (music) key (lever on a musical keyboard)

   琴鍵／琴键  ―  qínjiàn  ―  key

3. key (button on a typewriter or computer keyboard)

   空格鍵／空格键  ―  kōnggé jiàn  ―  the Escape key

   9鍵拼音／9键拼音  ―  jiǔjiàn pīnyīn  ―  9-key pinyin (a way of pinyin using a 9-key keyboard)

4. to type
5. (chemistry) bond

   離子鍵／离子键  ―  lízǐjiàn  ―  ionic bond

6. (computing) key (value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container)

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: ごん (gon)、げん (gen)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
• Kun: かぎ (kagi, 鍵, Jōyō)

 鍵 on Japanese Wikipedia

 鍵 (曖昧さ回避) on Japanese Wikipedia

• (Tokyo) かぎ (Odaka – )^[1][2][3][4]
• IPA^(key):

• • Homophone: 鉤

鍵(かぎ) • (kagi) 

1. key (tool for opening or locking something)
2. key; clue (important fact for solving something)
3. lock

• (Tokyo) けん (Atamadaka – )^[1][4][3]
• IPA^(key):

• • Homophones: けん, 件, 見, 券, 妍, 県, 兼, 剣, 拳, 乾, 険, 嶮, 圏, 間, 腱, 権, 賢, 壎, 塤, 顕, 軒

鍵(けん) • (ken) 

1. (computing) key
2. (music) key

• 鍵盤(けんばん) (kenban): keyboard
• 白鍵(はっけん) (hakken): white key
• 黒鍵(こっけん) (kokken): black key

• 錠(じょう) (jō)

From Middle Chinese 鍵 (MC gjen|gjonX). Recorded as Middle Korean 건〮 (kén) (Yale: ken) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

鍵

Wikisource

鍵 (eumhun 열쇠 건 (yeolsoe geon))

1. hanja form^? of 건 (“key”)

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

鍵: Hán Nôm readings: kiện

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