戒

Translingual

Etymology

戈 (“halberd”) + 廾 (“hands”) – to hold up a weapon as warning.

Han character

戒 (radical 62 戈+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 戈廿 (IT), four-corner 5340₀, composition ⿹戈廾)

1. warn, caution, admonish

Derived characters

• 械

See also

• 賊

References

• KangXi: page 412, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11548
• Dae Jaweon: page 754, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1400, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6212

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		戒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiè (jie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai³
• Min Nan (POJ): kài

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaai³
    • Yale: gaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai³
    • IPA ^(key): /kɑːi̯³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kài
    • Tâi-lô: kài
    • IPA (Taipei): /kaɪ¹¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kaɪ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (戒, reconstructed)
Character (戒), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 皆 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 古拜切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣɛiH/	/kăiH/	/kɛiH/	/kɯæiH/	/kəɨjH/	/kɐiH/	/kɐiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戒, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戒								jiè								‹ kɛjH ›								/*kˤrək-s (~ kˤrək)/								be on guard
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
戒					6544					戒					代					0					誡					/*krɯːɡs/

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Japanese

Kanji

戒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: け (ke) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: かい (kai)
• Kun: いましめる (imashimeru), いましめ (imashime)

Compounds

• 戒告
• 十戒
• 教戒
• 訓戒

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Korean

Hanja

戒 (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戒 (giới)

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