晷

晷 U+6677, 晷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6677 ← 晶 [U+6676] CJK Unified Ideographs 晸 → [U+6678]

Translingual

Han character

晷 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日竹人口 (AHOR) or 日竹卜口 (AHYR), four-corner 6060₄, composition ⿱日咎)

1. shadows of the sun
2. time
3. sundial

Derived characters

• 𣽞, 厬

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 497, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14005
• Dae Jaweon: page 863, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1519, character 15
• Unihan data for U+6677

Chinese

trad.		晷
simp. #		晷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (咎) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
咎	*kɯːw, *ɡɯwʔ
鼛	*kɯːw
櫜	*kɯːw
倃	*kɯːw, *ɡɯwʔ
綹	*ɡ·rɯwʔ
麔	*ɡɯwʔ
晷	*kʷrɯwʔ
厬	*kʷrɯwʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǐ (gui³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guěi
    • Wade–Giles: kuei³
    • Yale: gwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goei
    • Palladius: гуй (guj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwai²
    • Yale: gwái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: guei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwijX

Rime
Character	晷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居洧切
Baxter	kwijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjwiX/
Li Rong	/kjuiX/
Wang Li	/kwiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwai2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷrɯwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	晷
Reading #	1/1
No.	6991
Phonetic component	咎
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	軌
Old Chinese	/*kʷrɯwʔ/

Definitions

晷

1. (literary) shadow cast by the sun's light
2. (literary) time
3. sundial; gnomon

Compounds

• 寸晷
• 日不移晷
• 日晷 (rìguǐ)
• 日無暇晷／日无暇晷
• 昃晷
• 晷刻
• 晷針／晷针
• 淹晷
• 焚膏繼晷／焚膏继晷 (féngāojìguǐ)
• 燃膏繼晷／燃膏继晷 (rángāojìguǐ)
• 移晷
• 繼晷焚膏／继晷焚膏 (jìguǐféngāo)
• 風檐寸晷／风檐寸晷
• 風簷寸晷／风檐寸晷
• 餘晷／余晷

 

References

• “晷”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

晷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: かげ (kage)

Korean

Hanja

晷 (eum 귀 (gwi))

1. sundial, sun's shadow

Vietnamese

Han character

晷: Hán Nôm readings: quỹ

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References

• Nom Foundation