己

See also: 已 and 巳

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

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

Pictogram (象形): a loom with thread.

The character originally meant "to unravel" and was later borrowed to represent one of the ten heavenly stems. The derivative 紀 was created for the original word.

Han character

己 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU), four-corner 1771₇)

1. self, oneself
2. personal, private
3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/己
• 包 (Japanese form)

Descendants

• こ
• コ

References

• KangXi: page 326, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8742
• Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 983, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5DF1

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		己

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐ (ji³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): kí
• Min Nan (POJ): kī / kí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei²
    • Yale: géi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei²
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kí
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ki³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kī / kí
    • Tâi-lô: kī / kí
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki³³/, /ki⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki²²/, /ki⁵³/
  • Note: kī - vernacular, kí - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (己, reconstructed)
Character (己), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 之 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 居里切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɨX/	/kiX/	/kiəX/	/kɨX/	/kɨX/	/kĭəX/	/kieX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (己, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
己								jǐ								‹ kiX ›								/*k(r)əʔ/								6th heavenly stem
己								jǐ								‹ kiX ›								/*k(r)əʔ/								self
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
己					5765					己					之					0										/*kɯʔ/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

己

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: き (ki)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: おのれ (onore), つちのと (tsuchinoto)
• Nanori: み (mi)

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Korean

Hanja

己 (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

己 (kỷ, kỉ, anh)

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