貴

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 Descendants 1.2.2 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Prefix 3.2 Kanji 3.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 6 Vietnamese 6.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Han character

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

1. expensive, costly, valuable

[edit] Descendants

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

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

貴 (Yale gwai3)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Prefix

貴- (き, ki)

1. precious
2. your

[edit] Kanji

貴 (grade 6 kanji)

[edit] 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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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

貴 (quý, quí, quư)