何其

Chinese

		carry; what; how carry; what; how; why; which	his; her; its his; her; its; theirs; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it)
simp. and trad. (何其)		何	其

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): héqí

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ho⁴ kei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: héqí
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hécí
    • Wade–Giles: ho²-chʻi²
    • Yale: hé-chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: herchyi
    • Palladius: хэци (xɛci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ho⁴ kei⁴
    • Yale: hòh kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ho⁴ kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ho⁴ kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔː²¹ kʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ha gi

Rime
Character	何	其
Reading #	1/2	1/2
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	歌 (94)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	胡歌切	渠之切
Baxter	ha	gi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦɑ/	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦɑ/	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɑ/	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦa/	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɣɑ/	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɣɑ/	/ɡĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣɑ/	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	hé	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ho4	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤaj  ɡə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡaːl  ɡɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	何	其
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	hé	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ ha ›	‹ gi ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁaj/	/*ɡə/
English	what	modal particle
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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	何	其
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7458	9947
Phonetic component	可	其
Rime group	歌	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	何	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡaːl/	/*ɡɯ/

Adverb

何其

1. (literary) how; why
2. (literary) how

   何其愉快  ―  héqí yúkuài  ―  how happy [i.e. quite happy]

   用心何其毒辣！  ―  Yòngxīn héqí dúlà!  ―  How sinister was he!

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 多麼 (“how; what; so; such”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何等, 何其, 一何, 何哉, 何等也, 何則
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		多麼, 何等, 何其
Mandarin	Beijing	多麼, 多
	Taiwan	多麼, 多
	Jinan	多麼, 多
	Xi'an	多
	Wuhan	幾, 幾樣, 好
	Chengdu	好, 多
	Guilin	好
	Yangzhou	多
	Hefei	好
	Malaysia	多
	Singapore	多麼, 多
Cantonese	Guangzhou	幾, 幾咁
	Hong Kong	幾, 幾咁
	Yangjiang	幾
Gan	Nanchang	幾
Hakka	Meixian	幾
Jin	Taiyuan	多麼, 多來
Northern Min	Jian'ou	幾多
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	若夥, 若
Southern Min	Xiamen	偌, 偌爾仔, 活, 活欲
	Quanzhou	偌, 活, 活欲
	Zhangzhou	偌, 偌爾仔, 偌仔爾, 活, 活欲
	Taipei	偌爾, 偌仔爾
	Kaohsiung	偌爾, 偌仔爾
	Penang (Hokkien)	偌
	Singapore (Hokkien)	偌
	Manila (Hokkien)	偌
	Chaozhou	若
	Singapore (Teochew)	若
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	幾
Wu	Shanghai	多少, 幾化
	Suzhou	幾化
	Wenzhou	幾倈, 幾恁
Xiang	Changsha	幾, 幾多, 好
	Shuangfeng	幾, 好