几

See also: 凡, 凢, 儿, and 幾

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形)

几
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

几 (radical 16 几+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓 (HN), four-corner 7721₀)

1. small table
2. (simplified form of 幾)
3. how many? how much?
4. a few, some

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/几
• 殳, 肌, 飢, 机, 且, 䢳, 㞦, 孕
• See also Index:Chinese radical/風
• See also 凡#Derived characters

References

• KangXi: page 133, character 57
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1737
• Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 275, character 19
• Unihan data for U+51E0

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Chinese

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 幾. (This term, 几, is the simplified form of 幾.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

		-
simp. and trad.		几

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹
• Min Nan (POJ): kí
• Wu (WT Romanisation): qi (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: chih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹
    • Yale: gēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kí
    • Tâi-lô: kí
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: qi (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (几, reconstructed)
Character (几), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 常 (25) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 市朱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/d͡ʑɨo/	/ʑi̯u/	/ʑio/	/d͡ʑio/	/d͡ʑuə̆/	/ʑĭu/	/d͡ʑio/
Character (几), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 居履切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kiɪX/	/kiX/	/kiX/	/kiX/	/kiX/	/kiX/	/kjɪX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (几, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
几								jǐ								‹ kijX ›								/*C.kr[ə]jʔ/								stool
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
几					5760					几					脂					1					几					/*krilʔ/

Definitions

几

1. small table

   茶几 (chájī, "tea table")

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Japanese

Kanji

几

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: つくえ (tsukue)

Compounds

• 床几
• 几案
• 几下
• 几帳
• 几帳面

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Korean

Hanja

几 (gwe) (hangeul 궤, revised gwe, McCune-Reischauer kwe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

几 (kỉ)

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