憩

See also: 憇

憩 U+61A9, 憩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61A9 ← 憨 [U+61A8] CJK Unified Ideographs 憪 → [U+61AA]

Translingual

Han character

憩 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP) or 難竹山心 (XHUP), four-corner 2433₇, composition ⿱⿰舌自心)

1. rest, take rest

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11246
• Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2350, character 11
• Unihan data for U+61A9

Chinese

trad.		憩
simp. #		憩
alternative forms		憇

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : abbreviated 恬 (“tranquil”) + 息 (“rest”). There is also the possibility that 憩 is phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰrads) , with 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd) as the phonetic component.

Etymology

Possibly related to 歇 (OC *qʰad) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qì (qi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hei³ / tim⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): khè

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ki³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qì
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴
    • Yale: chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: hei³ / tim⁵
    • Yale: hei / tíhm
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hei³ / tim⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: héi³ / tim⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³³/, /tʰiːm¹³/

Note: tim5 - nonstandard.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khè
    • Tâi-lô: khè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰe²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰe¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰe²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ki³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: khjejH

Rime
Character	憩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	祭 (37)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去例切
Baxter	khjejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjiajH/
Li Rong	/kʰjɛiH/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɛiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰrads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	憩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qì
Middle Chinese	‹ khjejH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/
English	rest (v.)
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	憩
Reading #	1/1
No.	10174
Phonetic component	憩
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	憩
Old Chinese	/*kʰrads/
Notes	從恬息省會意

Definitions

憩

1. (literary) to rest

   小憩  ―  xiǎoqì  ―  to rest for a bit; to take a breather

   • 一心仰望，同心禱祈，相愛共享天憩。 [MSC, trad.]
     一心仰望，同心祷祈，相爱共享天憩。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1982 [1986], translation by 羅炳良 [Daniel P.L. Law] and 王培英, 樂哉家庭 [Happy the Home When God Is There], in 《生命聖詩》 [Hymns of Life]

     Yīxīn yǎngwàng, tóngxīn dǎoqí, xiāng'ài gòngxiǎng tiān qì. [Pinyin]

     When one their wish and one their prayer And one their heav'nly rest.

Compounds

• 休憩 (xiūqì)
• 小憩 (xiǎoqì)
• 少憩 (shǎoqì)
• 憩室 (qìshì)
• 憩息 (qìxī)
• 流憩
• 遊憩 / 游憩 (yóuqì)

 

References

• “憩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

憩

(Jōyō kanji)

1. break
2. rest period
3. rest
4. leisure

Readings

• Go-on: かい (kai)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
• Kun: いこい (ikoi, 憩い, Jōyō)^{←いこひ (ikofi, 憩ひ, historical)}、いこう (ikou, 憩う, Jōyō)^{←いこふ (ikofu, 憩ふ, historical)}、いこのう (ikonou, 憩う)^{←いこのふ (ikonofu, 憩ふ, historical)}
• Nanori: やす (yasu)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 憩 (MC khjejH).

Historical readings

• Recorded as Middle Korean 콍〮 (Yale: khyéy) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
• Recorded as Middle Korean 게 (key) (Yale: key) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ke̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [게(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource

憩 (eumhun 쉴 게 (swil ge))

1. hanja form^? of 게 (“to rest”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 게박 (憩泊, gebak)
• 휴게 (休憩, hyuge)
• 게식 (憩息, gesik)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

憩: Hán Nôm readings: khệ, khị

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References

• Nom Foundation