其
See also: 丌
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TranslingualEdit
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Han characterEdit
其 (radical 12, 八+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一金 (TMMC), four-corner 44801, composition ⿴共二)
Derived charactersEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 127, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1472
- Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 245, character 1
- Unihan data for U+5176
ChineseEdit
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| variant forms | 丌 亓 | |
Glyph originEdit
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 基 | *kɯ |
| 箕 | *kɯ |
| 朞 | *kɯ |
| 稘 | *kɯ |
| 萁 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 期 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諅 | *kɯ, *ɡɯs |
| 其 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 錤 | *kɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 諆 | *kɯ, *kʰɯ |
| 欺 | *kʰɯ |
| 娸 | *kʰɯ |
| 魌 | *kʰɯ |
| 僛 | *kʰɯ |
| 唭 | *kʰɯs |
| 棋 | *ɡɯ |
| 旗 | *ɡɯ |
| 淇 | *ɡɯ |
| 祺 | *ɡɯ, *ɡɯ |
| 琪 | *ɡɯ |
| 騏 | *ɡɯ |
| 綦 | *ɡɯ |
| 麒 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜞 | *ɡɯ |
| 綨 | *ɡɯ |
| 蜝 | *ɡɯ |
| 棊 | *ɡɯ |
| 碁 | *ɡɯ |
| 鯕 | *ɡɯ |
| 踑 | *ɡɯ |
| 藄 | *ɡɯ |
| 櫀 | *ɡɯ |
| 璂 | *ɡɯ |
| 禥 | *ɡɯ |
| 惎 | *ɡɯs |
| 帺 | *ɡɯs |
In the oracle bone script, it was originally 𠀠, a pictogram (象形) of a basket.
In the bronze inscriptions, 丌 was added under the basket to represent a stand. It may also have acted as a phonetic component.
Later borrowed for an Old Chinese pronoun. The derivative 箕 (OC *kɯ) refers to the original word.
EtymologyEdit
Pronunciation 1Edit
DefinitionsEdit
其
- † he; she; it; they; one
- 投其所好 ― tóuqísuǒhào ― to adapt to somebody's taste (lit. to cater to that which one likes)
- 知我者其惟《春秋》乎！罪我者其惟《春秋》乎！ [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
- From: Mengzi (Mencius), circa 4th century BCE
- Zhī wǒ zhě qí wéi “Chūnqiū” hū! Zuì wǒ zhě qí wéi “Chūnqiū” hū! [Pinyin]
- Yes! It is the Spring and Autumn which will make men know me, and it is the Spring and Autumn which will make men condemn me.
- † his; her; its; their
- (Min Dong) Possessive particle.
- A surname.
SynonymsEdit
| Dialectal synonyms of 的 (“possessive particle”) [map] | ||
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| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 之 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 的 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 的 |
| Taiwan | 的 | |
| Malaysia | 的 | |
| Singapore | 的 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 嘅 |
| Hong Kong | 嘅 | |
| Taishan | 個 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 个 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 个 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 个 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 个 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 个 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 个 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 个 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 个 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 的 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 其 |
| Min Nan | Xiamen | 个 |
| Chaozhou | 個 | |
| Shantou | 個 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 個 |
| Wenzhou | 個 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 的 |
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 其
Pronunciation 2Edit
DefinitionsEdit
其
- † Used at the end of a sentence to show doubt.
- † Used in personal names.
ReferencesEdit
- (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) →ISBN.
- (Min Nan) “Entry #3600”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
JapaneseEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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