Chinese

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advantage; benefit; profit
advantage; benefit; profit; sharp
 
device; tool; utensil
trad. (利器)
simp. #(利器)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (37) (29)
Final () (15) (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter lijH khijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪH/ /kʰˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/liH/ /kʰᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljɪH/ /kʰiɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/liH/ /kʰjiH/
Li
Rong
/liH/ /kʰjiH/
Wang
Li
/liH/ /kʰiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liH/ /kʰiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lei6 hei3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lijH › ‹ khijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ri[t]-s/ /*[kʰ]r[ə][t]-s/
English sharp; profit vessel; instrument

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 # 1/1 1/1
No. 7898 10173
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rids/ /*kʰrɯds/

Noun

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利器

  1. sharp weapon
  2. good tool; excellent instrument

Synonyms

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  • (good tool): (literary) 利用 (lìyòng)

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (利器):
  • Japanese: 利器(りき) (riki)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: 4
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
利器 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()() (riki

  1. sharp weapon
  2. convenient instrument
  3. useful talent

References

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