介

Translingual

Han character

介 (radical 9 人+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 人中中 (OLL), four-corner 8022₀, composition ⿱人⿰丿丨)

1. to lie between
2. seashell
3. to wear armour
4. (literary) alternative form of 芥

Derived characters

• 价 芥 尬 界

Descendants

• ケ

See also

• 个

References

• KangXi: page 91, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 359
• Dae Jaweon: page 194, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 103, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4ECB

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		介

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiè (jie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai³
• Min Nan (POJ): kài

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaai³
    • Yale: gaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kài
    • Tâi-lô: kài
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaɪ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaɪ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (介, reconstructed)
Character (介), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 皆 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古拜切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣɛiH/	/kăiH/	/kɛiH/	/kɯæiH/	/kəɨjH/	/kɐiH/	/kɐiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (介, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
介								jiè								‹ kɛjH ›								/*kˤr[e]p-s/								armour; scale of animals
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
介					6525					介					祭					2					誡					/*kreːds/

Definitions

介

1. (Cantonese - Hong Kong) chicken. Simplification of 雞.

Compounds

• 介词
• 介乎
• 介怀
• 介壳
• 介然
• 介入
• 介绍
• 介绍人
• 介绍信
• 介意
• 介音
• 介于
• 介质
• 介子
• 紹介, 绍介

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Japanese

Kanji

介

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. shell, shellfish
2. to be between, mediate
3. concern oneself with

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: かい (kai)
• Kun: たすける (tasukeru), すけ (suke)

Compounds

• 介意
• 介懐
• 介居
• 介護
• 介在
• 介子
• 介錯
• 介助
• 介心
• 介入
• 介馬
• 介抱
• 介殻
• 介甲
• 介党鱈
• 介病
• 介卵
• 介鱗

Related terms

• 介する
• 介添え

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Korean

Hanja

介 (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune-Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

介 (giới, lương)

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