圭

See also: 丰

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 土 + 土 – stack of (clay, jade) tablets.

Also Simplified from 丰 in some characters, such as 封.

As with 走, there are two separate vertical strokes, not a single one. Note that the right component of 隹 is drawn differently, and is unrelated.

Han character

圭 (radical 32 土+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土土 (GG), four-corner 4010₄, composition ⿱土土)

1. jade pointed at top
2. jade tablet used by officials in ancient China when addressing the emperor in court

Derived characters

• 佳 烓 桂 硅 袿 蛙 鞋 眭 封 街 厓

See also

• 拝

References

• KangXi: page 224, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4887
• Dae Jaweon: page 456, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 418, character 5
• Unihan data for U+572D

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		圭

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guī (gui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guī
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟ
    • Wade-Giles: kuei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guei
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwai¹
    • Yale: gwāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (圭, reconstructed)
Character (圭), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 古攜切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kwei/	/kiwei/	/kuei/	/kʷei/	/kwɛj/	/kiwei/	/kuɛi/

Old Chinese pronunciation (圭, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
圭								guī								‹ kwej ›								/*[k]ʷˤe/								jade scepter
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
圭					4569					圭					支					0					圭					/*kʷeː/

Compounds

• 圭表
• 圭亚那

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Japanese

Kanji

圭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: け (ke)
• Kan’on: けい (kei)
• Kun: たま (tama)

Proper noun

圭 (hiragana けい, romaji Kei)

1. A unisex given name

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Korean

Hanja

圭 (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

圭 (khuê, quê, khoai, que)

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