䭫

䭫 U+4B6B, 䭫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4B6B ← 䭪 [U+4B6A] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 䭬 → [U+4B6C]

Translingual

Han character

䭫 (Kangxi radical 185, 首+6, 15 strokes, composition ⿰旨首)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1428, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4501, character 10
• Unihan data for U+4B6B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		䭫

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声) : phonetic 旨 (OC *kjiʔ) + semantic 首 (“head”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐ (qi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kai²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi³
    • Yale: chǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chii
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kai²
    • Yale: kái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐi̯³⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʰˤijʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	䭫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ khejX ›
Old Chinese	/*kʰˁijʔ/
English	bow the head to the ground
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.

Definitions

䭫

1. Alternative form of 稽 (qǐ, “to rest; to stay”), used in 稽首 (qǐshǒu).

Usage notes

The character form 䭫 (qǐ) is used much less frequently than 稽 in the classical literature. However, its composition is closer to the one attested in the bronze script. An even closer transcription would be 𩒨 (⿰旨頁).