Wiktionary

季

See also: 李
季 U+5B63, 季
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B63
← 孢
[U+5B62] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 孤 →
[U+5B64]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 

Han character edit

季 (Kangxi radical 39, 子+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木弓木 (HDND), four-corner 20407, composition ⿱禾子)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 279, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6965
  • Dae Jaweon: page 547, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1013, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5B63

Chinese edit

trad. 季
simp. # 季

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 季
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
       
Characters in the same phonetic series (季) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
季 *kʷids
悸 *ɡʷids
痵 *ɡʷids

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 禾 + 子.

Etymology edit

Etymology not clear (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 季
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Tianjin /t͡ɕi⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕi²¹/
Qingdao /t͡ɕi⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕi³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕji²¹³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕi¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕi¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕi¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /t͡ɕi³⁵/
Suzhou /t͡ɕi⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /t͡ɕy⁴²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕi³²⁴/
Tunxi /t͡ɕi⁴²/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ki⁵³/
Taoyuan /kui⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kwɐi³³/
Nanning /kʷɐi³³/
Hong Kong /kwɐi³³/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /kui²¹/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /kiɛ²¹²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ky³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /kʰui²¹³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ki³⁵/
/kui³⁵/
Rime
Character 季
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居悸切
Baxter kjwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kiuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kwiH/
Li
Rong 		/kuiH/
Wang
Li 		/kwiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kwiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		guì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gwai3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 季
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjwijH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷi[t]-s/
English youngest

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 季
Reading # 1/1
No. 5832
Phonetic
component 		季
Rime
group 		至
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		季
Old
Chinese 		/*kʷids/
Notes 說文從稚省，王煦雲從𥝌（木曲頭，脂部古兮切）聲

Definitions edit

季

  1. youngest brother
  2. (figurative) end of a series
  3. quarter of a year
  4. season of the year
  5. (broadcasting) season
  6. a surname: Ji
    季羨林／季羡林  ―  Jì Xiànlín  ―  Ji Xianlin (Chinese Indologist and linguist)

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

季

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. season

Readings edit

Kanji in this term
季
き
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Affix edit

季(き) • (ki) 

  1. season
  2. end of a period
  3. youngest

Korean edit

Hanja edit

季 (eumhun 끝 계 (kkeut gye))

  1. Hanja form? of 계 (“end, final”).
  2. Hanja form? of 계 (“season”).

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

季: Hán Nôm readings: quý, quí, cuối, quỳ

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