酅

酅 U+9145, 酅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9145 ← 酄 [U+9144] CJK Unified Ideographs 酆 → [U+9146]

Translingual

Han character

酅 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+18, 21 strokes, cangjie input 山月弓中 (UBNL), four-corner 2722₇, composition ⿰巂阝)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1279, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39748
• Dae Jaweon: page 1778, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3805, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9145

Chinese

trad.		酅
simp. #		酅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
孈	*ɢʷeʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *qʰʷes, *ɢʷiʔ
纗	*ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː, *sqʷe, *ɢʷes
攜	*ɡʷeː
蠵	*ɡʷeː, *ɢʷe
鑴	*ɡʷeː, *qʰʷe
驨	*ɡʷeː
酅	*ɡʷeː
雟	*ɡʷeː
讗	*ɡʷeː, *kʷreːɡ
觽	*ɡʷeː
儶	*ɡʷeːs
觿	*qʰʷe
欈	*ɢʷe
瓗	*ɢʷes
携	*ɡʷleː

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡʷeː): phonetic 巂 () + semantic 邑 (“city”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kwai⁴
    • Yale: kwàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: he²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /he¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: hwej

Rime
Character	酅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	齊 (40)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	戸圭切
Baxter	hwej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwei/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷei/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣuɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwɛj/
Li Rong	/ɣuei/
Wang Li	/ɣiwei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣiwei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	酅
Reading #	1/1
No.	4624
Phonetic component	巂
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	攜
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷeː/

Definitions

酅

1. Used in place names. (Shandong)
2. a surname

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “酅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.