貴

See also 贵

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 臾 + semantic 貝 (“money cowrie”)

Han character

貴 (radical 154 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中一月山金 (LMBUC), four-corner 5080₆)

1. expensive, costly, valuable

Derived characters

• 潰, 饋, 匱, 聵, 闠, 憒, 䰎, 穨, 僓, 樻, 殨, 鞼, 䜋, 繢, 隤, 遺

Descendants

• 贵

References

• KangXi: page 1206, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36704
• Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3632, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8CB4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

貴 (simplified 贵, Yale gwai3)

1. precious
2. your (an honorific term for a deity or person)

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Japanese

Noun

貴 (hiragana むち, romaji muchi)

1. an honorific term for a deity or person

Derived terms

• 汝 (namuchi, nanji)

Prefix

貴 (hiragana き, romaji ki-)

1. precious
2. your

Proper noun

貴 (hiragana たか, romaji Taka)

1. A male given name

貴 (hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

1. A male given name

Kanji

貴 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: とうとい (貴い, toutoi), たっとい (貴い, tattoi), とうとぶ (貴ぶ, toutobu)

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Korean

Hanja

貴 (hangeul 귀, revised gwi, McCune-Reischauer kwi, Yale kwi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

貴 (simplified 贵, pinyin guì (gui4), Wade-Giles kuei⁴)

1. precious
2. your (an honorific term for a deity or person)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貴 (quý, quí, quư)