夬

Translingual

Han character

夬 (radical 37 大+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 木大 (DK), four-corner 5003₇)

1. parted
2. fork
3. certain
4. 43rd hexagram of the I Ching

References

• KangXi: page 249, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5836
• Dae Jaweon: page 507, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 51, character 11
• Unihan data for U+592C

Derived characters

• 决, 抉, 诀, 缺 (蒛), 袂, 玦, 赽, 蚗, 駃, 觖, 芵, 鴃, 鈌, 鴂, 妜, 砄, 刔, 疦, 炔

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		夬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guài (guai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwaai², gwaai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: guài
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: kuai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: guay
    • IPA ^(key): /ku̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwaai², gwaai³
    • Yale: gwáai, gwaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwaai², gwaai³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷɑːi̯³⁵/, /kʷɑːi̯³³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (夬, reconstructed)
Character (夬), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 夬 Division: II			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古賣切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣuaiH/	/kwaiH/	/kuaiH/	/kʷɯaiH/	/kwaɨjsH/	/kwæiH/	/kuaiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (夬, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
夬								guài								‹ kwæjH ›								/*[k]ʷˤret-s/								divide, make a breach
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
夬					4406					夬					祭					1					卦					/*kʷraːds/					本抉指初文

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Japanese

Kanji

夬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: けつ (ketsu), けち (kechi), かい (kai)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), きめる (kimeru), ゆがけ (yugake)

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Korean

Hanja

夬 (kwae) (hangeul 쾌, revised kwae, McCune-Reischauer k'wae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

夬 (quái)

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References

• Nom Foundation