闋

See also: 阕

闋 U+95CB, 闋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CB ← 闊 [U+95CA] CJK Unified Ideographs 闌 → [U+95CC]

Translingual

Han character

闋 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓弓人大 (ANNOK), four-corner 7743₁, composition ⿵門癸)

1. cease, end, exhaust, stop
2. word, turn, gap

Derived characters

• 𦘍

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41430
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4311, character 2
• Unihan data for U+95CB

Chinese

trad.		闋
simp.		阕

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (癸) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
睽	*kʰʷiːl
湀	*kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
聧	*kʰʷiː
藈	*kʰʷiːl
癸	*kʷilʔ
葵	*ɡʷil
鄈	*ɡʷil
楑	*ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
戣	*ɡʷril
鍨	*ɡʷril
騤	*ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
揆	*ɡʷilʔ
猤	*ɡʷils
闋	*kʰʷiːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): què (que⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: què
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyuè
    • Wade–Giles: chʻüeh⁴
    • Yale: chywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
    • Palladius: цюэ (cjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³
    • Yale: kyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³/

---

• Middle Chinese: khwet

Rime
Character	闋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	先 (88)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	苦穴切
Baxter	khwet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwɛt̚/
Li Rong	/kʰuet̚/
Wang Li	/kʰiwet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰiwet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	que
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hyut3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷiːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	闋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	què
Middle Chinese	‹ khwet ›
Old Chinese	/*kʷʰˁi[t]/
English	finish, end
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	闋
Reading #	1/1
No.	4657
Phonetic component	癸
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	闋
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷiːd/

Definitions

闋

1. (literary) to stop; to end

   • 有司告以樂闋，王乃命公侯伯子男及群吏曰：「反！養老幼於東序。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有司告以乐阕，王乃命公侯伯子男及群吏曰：「反！养老幼于东序。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Yǒu sī gào yǐ yuè què, wáng nǎi mìng gōng hóu bó zǐ nán jí qún lì yuē: “Fǎn! Yǎng lǎoyòu yú dōng xù.” [Pinyin]

     The officers having announced that the music was over, the king then charged the dukes, marquises, earls, counts, and barons, with all the officers, saying, "Return, and nourish the aged and the young in your eastern schools."

2. Classifier for songs, poems, etc.

   • 無暇在鬧市裡停半分鐘聽一闋歌 [Literary Cantonese, trad.]
     无暇在闹市里停半分钟听一阕歌 [Literary Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2018, 許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui), 停半分鐘聽一闋歌 (Spare A Listen)

     mou⁴ haa⁶ zoi⁶ naau⁶ si⁵ leoi⁵ ting⁴ bun³ fan¹ zung¹ ting¹ jat¹ kyut³ go¹ [Jyutping]

     Too busy in the downtown to spare half a minute to listen to a song

3. Classifier for stanzas of a poem.

Compounds

• 服闋／服阕
• 葛天八闋／葛天八阕

 

Usage notes

Often mistakenly written as 闕／阙 (què).

Japanese

Kanji

闋

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. close
2. shut
3. watch-tower
4. rest

Readings

• On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu); けち (kechi); けい (kei); け (ke)
• Kun: とじる (tojiru)

Korean

Hanja

闋 • (gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.