橘

橘 U+6A58, 橘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A58 ← 橗 [U+6A57] CJK Unified Ideographs 橙 → [U+6A59]

See also: 桔

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

橘 (radical 75 木+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 木弓竹月 (DNHB), four-corner 4792₇, composition ⿰木矞)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 553, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15551
• Dae Jaweon: page 942, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1297, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6A58

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		橘

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 橘
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (矞) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
瞲	*qʰʷilʔ, *qʰʷids, *qʰʷiːd
璚	*ɡʷeŋ
劀	*kʷriːd, *kʷreːd
鱊	*kʷriːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
譎	*kʷiːd
潏	*kʷiːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
鐍	*kʷiːd
憰	*kʷiːd
噊	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
驈	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
橘	*kʷid
繘	*kʷid, *ɢʷid
獝	*qʰʷid
燏	*ɢʷid
遹	*ɢʷid
鷸	*ɢʷid
矞	*ɢʷid
霱	*ɢʷid

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jú (ju²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwat¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kiat / kit

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jú
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˊ
    • Wade-Giles: chü²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwat¹
    • Yale: gwāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gued¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɐt̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiat
    • Tâi-lô: kiat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiad
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛt̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛt̚³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛt̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kit
    • Tâi-lô: kit
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kid
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kit̚³²/

Note: kiat/kit - vernacular (俗), 桔 is used in Taiwan.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 橘
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕy³⁵/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕy⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕy²⁴/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕy²¹/
	Xining	/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕy¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕy¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕy²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕy³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕiu²¹/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕi³¹/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕyʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕyəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕyʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕyəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡ɕioʔ⁵/ /t͡ɕyɪʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡ɕyəʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sz̩ʷəʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕai²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕyʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕyn²⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕy²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕy²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕyʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/kit̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/kit̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kwɐt̚⁵/
	Nanning	/kɐt̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/kwɐt̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/kut̚³²/ /kiat̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kɛiʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xi²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/kik̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/kit̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kiuɪt̚/▼

Rime
Character	橘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居聿切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kjuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwit̚/
Li Rong	/kiuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/kĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ju

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[s.k]ʷi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷid/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	橘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jú
Middle Chinese	‹ kjwit ›
Old Chinese	/*[s.k]ʷi[t]/
English	orange (tangerine?)
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	橘
Reading #	1/1
No.	16015
Phonetic component	矞
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	橘
Old Chinese	/*kʷid/

DefinitionsEdit

橘

1. tangerine

   • 甘橘，大厘城有之，其味酸。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 7

     Gān jú, dàlí chéng yǒu zhī, qí wèi suān. [Pinyin]

     Dali City has sweet tangerines, but their flavour is sour.

See alsoEdit

• 桔 (jié)

CompoundsEdit

• 千頭橘奴／千头橘奴
• 南橘北枳
• 懷橘／怀橘
• 柑橘 (gānjú)
• 橘井
• 橘化為枳／橘化为枳
• 橘奴

• 橘子 (júzi)
• 橘柑
• 橘河
• 橘皮 (júpí)
• 橘紅／橘红 (júhóng)
• 橘絡／橘络
• 橘酒

• 橘頌／橘颂
• 橘餅／橘饼
• 橘黃／橘黄
• 福橘
• 蜜橘
• 越橘
• 金橘 (jīnjú)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

橘

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: きち (kichi)
• Kan’on: きつ (kitsu)
• Kun: たちばな (tachibana)

CompoundsEdit

• 柑橘類 (かんきつるい) (kankitsurui)

PronunciationEdit

Kanji in this term
橘
たちばな Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) たち​ばな [tàchíꜜbànà] (Nakadaka - [2])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡ɕiba̠na̠]

NounEdit

橘 (hiragana たちばな, katakana タチバナ, rōmaji tachibana)

1. Citrus tachibana, a species of wild, green, inedible citrus fruit native to Japan

Proper nounEdit

橘 (hiragana たちばな, rōmaji Tachibana)

1. A surname​.

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

橘 • (gyul) (hangeul 귤, revised gyul, McCune-Reischauer kyul, Yale kyul)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

橘 (quất, quít, quầng, quắt)

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