夬

夬 U+592C, 夬 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-592C ← 夫 [U+592B] CJK Unified Ideographs 夭 → [U+592D]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

夬 (radical 37 大+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木大 (DK), four-corner 5003₇)

1. parted
2. fork
3. certain
4. 43rd hexagram of the I Ching

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 249, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5836
• Dae Jaweon: page 507, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 51, character 11
• Unihan data for U+592C

Derived charactersEdit

• 决, 抉, 诀, 缺 (蒛), 袂, 玦, 赽, 蚗, 駃, 觖, 芵, 鴃, 鈌, 鴂, 妜, 砄, 刔, 疦, 炔

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		夬

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 夬
Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袂	mɡʷeds
夬	kʷraːds
快	kʰʷraːds
駃	kʰʷraːds, *kʷeːd
筷	kʰʷraːds
炔	kʷeːds
觖	kʰʷeds, *kʷeːd
缺	kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd
蒛	kʰʷed
吷	qʰʷed
妜	qʷed, *qʷeːd
決	kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
訣	kʷeːd
抉	kʷeːd, *qʷeːd
玦	kʷeːd
芵	kʷeːd
赽	kʷeːd
鴂	kʷeːd
鈌	kʷeːd
决	kʷeːd
疦	kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
蚗	kʷeːd
趹	kʷeːd

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guài (guai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaai², gwaai³
• Min Nan (POJ): koái / koat

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: guài
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kuai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guay
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaai², gwaai³
    • Yale: gwáai, gwaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaai², gwaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: guai², guai³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑːi̯³⁵/, /kʷɑːi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: koái / koat
    • Tâi-lô: kuái / kuat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koae, koad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kuai⁵³/, /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kuai⁵⁵⁴/, /kuat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kuai⁵³/, /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kuai⁵³/, /kuat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kuai⁴¹/, /kuat̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /kˠuai^H/▼

Rime
Character	夬
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	夬 (30)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古賣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠuaiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚaiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuaiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaɨjsH/
Li Rong	/kuaiH/
Wang Li	/kwæiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kwaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guài

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[k]ʷˤret-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷraːds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夬
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guài
Middle Chinese	‹ kwæjH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷˤret-s/
English	divide, make a breach
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	夬
Reading #	1/1
No.	4406
Phonetic component	夬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	卦
Old Chinese	/*kʷraːds/
Notes	本抉指初文

DefinitionsEdit

夬

1. resolute
2. 43rd hexagram of the I Ching

Etymology 2Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 夬 – see 決. (This character, 夬, is a variant form of 決.)

Etymology 3Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 夬 – see 缺. (This character, 夬, is the second-round simplified and variant form of 缺.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

夬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• Goon: け (ke), けち (kechi)
• Kan’on: かい (kai), けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), きめる (kimeru), ゆがけ (yugake)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

夬 • (kwae) (hangeul 쾌, revised kwae, McCune-Reischauer k'wae)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

夬 (quái)

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ReferencesEdit

• Nom Foundation