佶

佶 U+4F76, 佶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F76 ← 併 [U+4F75] CJK Unified Ideographs 佷 → [U+4F77]

Translingual

Han character

佶 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人土口 (OGR) or 難人土口 (XOGR), four-corner 2426₁, composition ⿰亻吉)

1. strong, robust
2. exact, correct

Derived characters

• 𩸔

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 100, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 562
• Dae Jaweon: page 213, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 144, character 1
• Unihan data for U+4F76

Chinese

simp. and trad.		佶

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 佶
Small seal script s05705
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
秸	*kriːl, *kriːd
髻	*kiːds
夡	*kʰids
鴶	*kriːd
袺	*kriːd, *kiːd
頡	*kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼	*kʰriːd
硈	*kʰriːd
咭	*kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠	*ɡriːd
聐	*ŋreːd
趌	*ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結	*kiːd
拮	*kiːd, *klid
桔	*kiːd
狤	*kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷	*qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭	*ɡiːd
翓	*ɡiːd
纈	*ɡiːd
吉	*klid
郆	*kid
詰	*kʰid
蛣	*kʰid
佶	*ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚	*ɡrid
姞	*ɡrid
欯	*qʰlid
恄	*qʰlid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí (ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gat¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jí
    • Wade–Giles: chi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gat¹
    • Yale: gāt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: ged¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐt̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: git

Rime
Character	佶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨乙切
Baxter	git
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjit̚/
Li Rong	/ɡjĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ɡĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ri[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡlid/, /*ɡrid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	佶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jí
Middle Chinese	‹ git ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ri[t]/
English	strong, healthy (horse)
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	佶	佶
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5701	5704
Phonetic component	吉	吉
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime		姞
Old Chinese	/*ɡlid/	/*ɡrid/

Definitions

佶

1. (literary) strong; robust

Compounds

• 佶倔
• 佶倬
• 佶傈
• 佶屈
• 佶屈聱牙 (jíqū'áoyá)
• 佶栗
• 佶烈
• 佶聱

 

Japanese

Kanji

佶

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ごち (gochi)
• Kan-on: きつ (kitsu)
• Kun: ただしい (tadashii)
• Nanori: たけし (takeshi)、ただし (tadashi)、つよし (tsuyoshi)

Proper noun

佶(ただし) • (Tadashi) 

1. (obsolete) a male given name

Korean

Hanja

佶 • (gil) (hangeul 길, revised gil, McCune–Reischauer kil)

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