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橘

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

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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

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 橘

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 橘
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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

Note: kiat/kit - vernacular (俗), 桔 is used in Taiwan.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 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/
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
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

See alsoEdit

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

橘

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

Etymology 1Edit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Wikipedia has an article on:
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Kanji in this term
橘
たちばな
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/tadibana/ → /tatibana/ → /tat͡ɕibana/

Named after 田道間守 (Tajimamori, “Tajimamori”), a legendary figure mentioned in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki; purportedly bringing back certain fruits, but not directly as tachibana by name.

Shortened to tachi for some compounds.

PronunciationEdit

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
    Synonyms: 大和橘 (Yamato tachibana)
    Hypernyms: 蜜柑 (mikan)
  2. Synonym of 唐橘 (kara-tachibana): the trifoliate orange, Citrus trifoliata, formerly Poncirus trifoliata
  3. (historical) generic name for citrus fruits, usually eaten raw
  4. name of a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”), with designs of tachibana flowers, fruits, and leaves
Usage notesEdit
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
IdiomsEdit

Proper nounEdit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
 
Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

橘 (hiragana たちばな, rōmaji Tachibana)

  1. Short for 橘氏 (Tachibana uji): name of an ancient clan, who often held high-ranking positions in the medieval Japanese court
  2. name of one of two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (see   Japanese destroyer Tachibana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  3. name of a class of destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (see   Matsu-class destroyer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  4. A surname​.

橘 (hiragana たち, rōmaji Tachi)

  1. A surname​.

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle Chinese 橘 (MC kiuɪt̚).

Proper nounEdit

橘 (hiragana きち, rōmaji Kichi)

  1. a surname​.

橘 (hiragana きつ, rōmaji Kitsu)

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname​.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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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