噲

See also: 哙

噲 U+5672, 噲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5672 ← 噱 [U+5671] CJK Unified Ideographs 噳 → [U+5673]

Translingual

Han character

噲 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 口人一日 (ROMA), four-corner 6806₆, composition ⿰口會)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 211, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4407
• Dae Jaweon: page 433, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 693, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5672

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譮	*qʰruːbs
會	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
儈	*koːbs
膾	*koːbs
鱠	*koːbs
襘	*koːbs
禬	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
檜	*koːbs, *koːd
旝	*koːbs
澮	*koːbs
鄶	*koːbs
廥	*koːbs
鬠	*koːbs, *ɡoːd
劊	*koːbs, *koːd
獪	*koːbs, *kroːbs
繪	*ɡoːbs
懀	*qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs
薈	*qoːbs
嬒	*qoːbs, *qoːd
瞺	*qoːbs
噲	*kʰroːbs
璯	*kʰroːbs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰroːbs) : semantic 口 + phonetic 會 (OC *koːbs, *ɡoːbs).

Etymology 1

trad.		噲
simp.		哙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuài (kuai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faai³
• Eastern Min (BUC): guói
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kōe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuài
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuài
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuai⁴
    • Yale: kwài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
    • Palladius: куай (kuaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faai³
    • Yale: faai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: fai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːi̯³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: guói
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kui²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kōe
    • Tâi-lô: kuē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koe
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kue²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kue²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kue³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kue³³/

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• Middle Chinese: khwaejH

Rime
Character	噲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	夬 (30)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	苦夬切
Baxter	khwaejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠuaiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷᵚaiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuaiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwaɨjsH/
Li Rong	/kʰuaiH/
Wang Li	/kʰwæiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰwaiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	faai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʰr[o][p]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰroːbs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	噲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuài
Middle Chinese	‹ khwæjH ›
Old Chinese	/*kʰr[o][p]-s/
English	comfortable (room)
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	噲
Reading #	1/1
No.	5515
Phonetic component	會
Rime group	蓋
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	快
Old Chinese	/*kʰroːbs/

Definitions

噲

1. swallow down
2. mouth of birds or beasts

Etymology 2

trad.		噲
simp.		哙

Pronunciation

• Eastern Min (BUC): huòi

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• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: huòi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hui⁵³/

Definitions

噲

1. (Eastern Min) Alternative form of 回 (“that; then”)

Etymology 3

trad.		噲
simp.		哙

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wui⁵
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): voi⁴
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): oi⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wui⁵
    • Yale: wúih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wui⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: wui⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: voi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ʋoɪ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: oi⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ŏi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /oi³⁵/

Definitions

噲

1. (dated in Cantonese, Hakka, still used in Teochew) Alternative form of 會／会 (“can; will”)
   • 1894, James Dyer Ball, Readings in Cantonese Colloquial, page 2:

     你噲舉個隻手到熱頭咁高唔呢、唔噲呀。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     你哙举个只手到热头咁高唔呢、唔哙呀。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     nei⁵ wui⁵ geoi² go³ zek³ sau² dou³ jit⁶ tau^4-2 gam³ gou¹ m⁴ ni¹, m⁴ wui⁵ aa³. [Jyutping]

     Can you reach up so high? No. (literally, Can you raise that hand to as high as the sun? [You] cannot.)

   • (Can we date this quote?), “潮汕女孩”, 李立群 (lyrics), 徐曉穎 (music)‎^[1]performed by 徐曉穎:

     伊噲害你一輩子攏著假好人唔敢使坏 [Teochew, trad.]
     伊哙害你一辈子拢着假好人唔敢使坏 [Teochew, simp.]

     i¹ oi⁶ hai⁷ le² zêg⁸ buê³ ze² long² diêh⁸ gê² ho² nang⁵ m⁶ gan² sai² huai⁶ [Peng'im]

     She will cause you to pretend to be a good man and not dare play tricks all your life.

Japanese

Kanji

噲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. swallow
2. gulp down
3. greedy

Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai)
• Kun: あかるい (akarui, 噲るい); こころよい (kokoroyoi, 噲い); すする (susuru, 噲る); のど (nodo, 噲)

Korean

Hanja

噲 • (kwae) (hangeul 쾌, revised kwae, McCune–Reischauer k'wae)

1. throat
2. refreshing

Vietnamese

Han character

噲: Hán Nôm readings: khoái, gọi, còn, gỏi, gũi, hỏi, khoải

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