桔

Translingual

Han character

桔 (radical 75 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木土口 (DGR), four-corner 4496₁, composition ⿰木吉)

1. Chinese bellflower
2. well-swept
3. the inner fibers of corn-stalks

References

• KangXi: page 526, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14777
• Dae Jaweon: page 915, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1194, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6854

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Cantonese

Hanzi

桔 (Jyutping aat1, gat1, Yale aat1, gat1)

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Japanese

Kanji

桔

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. (used in plant names)

Readings

• Goon: けつ (ketsu)
• Kan’on: きつ (kitsu)
• Kun: き (ki), はねつるべ (hanetsurube) (rare)

Compounds

• 桔梗 (ききょう, ​kikyō): the platycodon or Chinese bellflower, Platycodon grandiflorus
• 桔木 (はねぎ, ​hanegi): a wooden lever used to remove something; part of a roof; part of a ship's stern
• 桔槹 (きっこう, ​kikkō; けっこう, ​kekkō): alternate for 撥ね釣瓶, 撥釣瓶 (はねつるべ, ​hanetsurube): an early kind of device using a long pole with a counterbalance as a lever to get water out of a well

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Korean

Hanja

桔 (gil) (hangeul 길, revised gil, McCune-Reischauer kil, Yale kil)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

桔 (Pinyin jié (jie2), Wade-Giles chieh²), ju2, xie2

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Vietnamese

Han character

桔 (kết, cát, quất)

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