隗

隗 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹山戈 (NLHUI), four-corner 7621₃, composition ⿰阝鬼)

• 𠏁, 㠕

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41788
• Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4147, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9697

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋɡuːlʔ) : semantic 阝 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ).

隗

1. ^† high; lofty

   杳隗  ―  yǎowěi  ―  high and steep

2. ^† to collapse; to fall
3. a surname

Wang Guowei (1923) (apud Khayutina, 2016) connects this surname, also written as 媿／愧 (kuí), to the ethnonym 鬼方 (Guǐfāng).

隗

1. a surname

   • 潞、洛、泉、徐、蒲，皆赤狄，隗姓也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 韋昭 Wei Zhao,《國語注》Commentaries on Discourses of the States, Ch. 16

     Lù, Luò, Quán, Xú, Pú, jiē Chìdí, Kuí xìng yě.

     Lu, Luo, Quan, Xu, and Pu were all Red Di, surnamed Kui.

• Khayutina, Maria. (2016). "The Tombs of the Rulers of Peng and Relationships between Zhou and Northern Non-Zhou Lineages (Until the Early Ninth Century B.C.)" in Shaughnessy, Edward L. (ed.) Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscriptions from Ancient China Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. pp. 71-132

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. high
2. steep

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: がい (gai)
• Kan’yō-on: かい (kai)
• Kun: けわしい (kewashii, 隗しい); たかい (takai)

隗 • (a) (hangeul 아)

1. high
2. lofty