See also:
U+5947, 奇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5947

[U+5946]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5948]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 37, +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 大一弓口 (KMNR), four-corner 40621, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 250, character 31
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5892
  • Dae Jaweon: page 510, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 533, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5947

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
alternative forms
⿱七可

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kral, *ɡral) : semantic (big; great) + phonetic (OC *kʰaːlʔ).

Pronunciation 1 edit


Note: literary.
Note: literary.

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁵/
Jinan /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
Qingdao /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕʰi⁴²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕʰji²⁴/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕʰi⁵³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕʰi²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕʰi²¹³/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Guiyang /t͡ɕʰi²¹/
Kunming /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Nanjing /t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
Hefei /t͡sʰz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕʰi¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕʰi¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Wu Shanghai /d͡ʑi²³/
Suzhou /d͡ʑi¹³/
Hangzhou /d͡ʑi²¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡zz̩³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/ 稀~
/t͡ɕʰi⁴⁴/ ~怪
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕi¹³/
Xiangtan /d͡ʑi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰi²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /kʰi¹¹/
Taoyuan /kʰi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kʰei²¹/
Nanning /kʰi²¹/
Hong Kong /kʰei²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ki³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ki⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ki²¹/
/kyɛ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /xi³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2
Initial () (30)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter gje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/ɡje/
Wang
Li
/ɡǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kei4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ gje ›
Old
Chinese
/*N-k(r)aj/
English strange

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
Reading # 2/2
No. 9997
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡral/

Definitions edit

  1. strange; odd; weird; unusual
      ―  guài  ―  strange
      ―    ―  peculiar
  2. wonderful; fantastic; remarkable
      ―  (M); (T)  ―  miracle
      ―  miào  ―  fantastic

Compounds edit

Pronunciation 2 edit


Note:
  • kiă - vernacular;
  • kiĕ/ngiă - literary.
Note:
  • khia/kha - vernacular;
  • ki - literary.
Note:
  • kia1 - venacular;
  • gi1 - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2
Initial () (28)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter kje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/kje/
Wang
Li
/kǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gei1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ kje ›
Old
Chinese
/*[k](r)aj/
English odd (number)

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
Reading # 1/2
No. 9973
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kral/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. unsmooth; disadvantageous
  2. surplus
  3. (mathematics) odd
      ―  shù  ―  odd number
  4. (Eastern Min, Southern Min) Classifier for a single one of a pair or a large collection.
    [Eastern Min]  ―  siŏh-kiă dê̤ṳ / [suoʔ⁵⁻⁵⁵ (kʰ-)ia⁵⁵ tøy²⁴²] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]  ―  a single chopstick
Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Pronunciation 3 edit


Definitions edit

  1. Alternative form of (ǎi, short)

Pronunciation 4 edit


Definitions edit

  1. Alternative form of (, to lean on)

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. strange

Readings edit

Compounds edit

See also edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

() (ki (ki)?-na (adnominal () (ki na), adverbial () (ki ni))

  1. strange

Inflection edit

Noun edit

() (ki (ki)?

  1. strangeness

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology 1 edit

Hanja edit

(eumhun 기이할 (giihal gi))

  1. Hanja form? of (strange, unusual, uncanny, occult).

Etymology 2 edit

Hanja edit

(eumhun 의지할 (uijihal ui))

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: kỳ, cả, ,

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