閨

See also: 闺

閨	U+95A8, 閨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95A8

← 閧
[U+95A7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

閩 →
[U+95A9]

Translingual

Han character

閨 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓土土 (ANGG), four-corner 7710₄, composition ⿵門圭)

Derived characters

𪷭

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1335, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41312
Dae Jaweon: page 1840, character 29
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4294, character 7
Unihan data for U+95A8

Chinese

trad.		閨
simp.		闺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
街	kreː, kreː
鞋	ɡreː, ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾	ŋreː, ŋreːʔ
佳	*kreː
鮭	ɡreː, kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯	ŋreː, ŋre
崖	ŋreː, ŋre
啀	*ŋreː
厓	*ŋreː
捱	*ŋreː
睚	*ŋreːs
娃	*qreː
洼	qreː, qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇	qreː, qʷraː
胿	ɡeː, kʷeː
溎	*qeːns
觟	*ɡʷraːʔ
黊	ɡʷraːʔ, ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳	ɡʷraːʔ, qʰʷe
蛙	qʷraː, qʷreː
窪	*qʷraː
卦	*kʷreːs
挂	*kʷreːs
掛	*kʷreːs
詿	kʷreːs, ɡʷreːs
罣	kʷreːs, ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓	kʰʷreː, ɡʷreːs
鼃	ɢʷreː, qʷreː
圭	*kʷeː
珪	*kʷeː
邽	*kʷeː
閨	*kʷeː
袿	*kʷeː
窐	kʷeː, ɡʷeː
茥	kʷeː, kʰʷeː
桂	*kʷeːs
筀	*kʷeːs
奎	*kʰʷeː
刲	*kʰʷeː
蝰	*kʰʷeː
楏	*kʰʷeː
睳	*qʰʷeː
畦	*ɡʷeː
眭	ɡʷeː, sqʰʷe, qʰʷe, qʰʷi
烓	qʷeː, kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬	*kʰʷeʔ
恚	*qʷes
硅	*qʰʷreɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʷeː) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː, “pointed jade tablet”) – arched door in the shape of a 圭 (guī).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): guī (gui¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kui / ke

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: guī
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: guei
  - Wade–Giles: kuei¹
  - Yale: gwēi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guei
  - Palladius: гуй (guj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gwai¹
  - Yale: gwāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gwai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: guei¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kui
  - Tâi-lô: kui
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kuy
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /kui⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kui³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ke
  - Tâi-lô: ke
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kef
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /ke⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ke³³/

Middle Chinese: kwej

Rime
Character	閨
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	齊 (40)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古攜切
Baxter	kwej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwei/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷei/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛj/
Li Rong	/kuei/
Wang Li	/kiwei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiwei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwai¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kʷeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	閨
Reading #	1/1
No.	4572
Phonetic component	圭
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	圭
Old Chinese	/*kʷeː/

Definitions

閨

(literary) small arched gate
boudoir; lady's chamber

Compounds

References

“閨”, 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

閨

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)}^{←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}
Kan-on: けい (kei)^{←けい (kei, historical)}^{←くゑい (kwei, ancient)}
Kun: ねや (neya, 閨)

Korean

Hanja

閨 • (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune–Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閨: Hán Nôm readings: khuê

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