介

Translingual

Han character

介 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人中中 (OLL), four-corner 8022₀, composition ⿱人⿰丿丨)

1. to lie between
2. seashell
3. to wear armour
4. (literary) alternative form of 芥

Derived characters

• 价 芥 尬 界

Descendants

• ケ

See also

• 个

References

• KangXi: page 91, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 359
• Dae Jaweon: page 194, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 103, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4ECB

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Cantonese

Hanzi

介 (jyutping gaai3, Yale gaai3)

1. (Hong Kong) chicken. Simplification of 雞.

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Japanese

Kanji

介 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. shell, shellfish
2. to be between, mediate
3. concern oneself with

Readings

• On: かい (kai)
• Kun: たすける (tasukeru), すけ (suke)

Compounds

• 介意
• 介懐
• 介居
• 介護
• 介在
• 介子
• 介錯
• 介助
• 介心
• 介入
• 介馬
• 介抱
• 介殻
• 介甲
• 介党鱈
• 介病
• 介卵
• 介鱗

Related terms

• 介する
• 介添え

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Korean

Hanja

介 (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

介 (pinyin jiè (jie4), Wade-Giles chieh⁴)

Compounds

• 介词
• 介乎
• 介怀
• 介壳
• 介然
• 介入
• 介绍
• 介绍人
• 介绍信
• 介意
• 介音
• 介于
• 介质
• 介子
• 紹介, 绍介

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Vietnamese

Han character

介 (giới)