技

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TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡreʔ): semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 支 ‎(OC *kje) – skill with one’s hands.

Han characterEdit

技 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手十水 (QJE), four-corner 5404₇, composition ⿰扌支)

1. skill, ability, talent
2. ingenuity

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 420, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11855
• Dae Jaweon: page 767, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1834, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6280

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		技

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jì (ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): ki

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei⁶
    • Yale: geih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki
    • Tâi-lô: ki
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 技
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕi⁵³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/ /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	/d͡ʑi²³/
	Suzhou	/d͡ʑi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡zz̩³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰi²²/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕi⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰi⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/ki²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kei²²/
	Nanning	/ki²²/
	Hong Kong	/kei²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ki²²/ /ki⁵⁵/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ki⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/ki³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ki³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡˠiᴇ^X/▼

Rime
Character	技
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	渠綺切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjiə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɡjeX/
Wang Li	/ɡǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/gie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]reʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡreʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	技
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jì
Middle Chinese	‹ gjeX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]reʔ/
English	skill
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	技
Reading #	1/1
No.	17229
Phonetic component	支
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	技
Old Chinese	/*ɡreʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

技

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ReferencesEdit

• “Entry #3211”, 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.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

技

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: ぎ (gi)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: わざ (waza)

NounEdit

Kanji in this term
技
わざ Grade: 5
kun'yomi

Kanji in this term
技
ぎ Grade: 5
on'yomi

技 ‎(hiragana わざ, romaji waza, alternative reading ぎ, romaji gi)

1. technique, art, skill

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

技 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

技 (kĩ, kỹ)

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