薊

See also 蓟

Translingual

Han character

薊 (radical 140 艸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓火弓 (TNFN), four-corner 4432₀)

1. Cirsium or Carduus (generic), thistles
2. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1060, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32095
• Dae Jaweon: page 1524, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3304, character 11
• Unihan data for U+858A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

薊 (simplified 蓟, Yale gai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

薊

Readings

• On: けい (kei)
• Kun: あざみ (azami)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

薊 (simplified 蓟, pinyin cí (ci2), jì (ji4), Wade-Giles tz'u², chi⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

薊 (kế)