闑

闑 U+95D1, 闑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95D1 ← 闐 [U+95D0] CJK Unified Ideographs 闒 → [U+95D2]

Translingual

Han character

闑 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+10, 18 strokes, cangjie input 日弓竹山木 (ANHUD), four-corner 7790₄, composition ⿵門臬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41449
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4313, character 5
• Unihan data for U+95D1

Chinese

trad.		闑
simp.		𫔶

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (臬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
甈	*ŋ̊ʰreds, *ŋeːds
臬	*ŋeːd
嵲	*ŋeːd, *ŋred
臲	*ŋeːd
闑	*ŋeːd, *ŋred

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋeːd, *ŋred) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 臬 (OC *ŋeːd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): niè (nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jit⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): gia̍t
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁸gniq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: niè
    • Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
    • Yale: nyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
    • Palladius: не (ne)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jit⁶
    • Yale: yiht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gia̍t
    • Tâi-lô: gia̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: giat
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡiɛt̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡiɛt̚²⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁸gniq
    • MiniDict: nyih^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵nyiq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /n̠ʲiɪʔ¹²/

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• Middle Chinese: nget, ngjet

Rime
Character	闑	闑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	先 (87)	仙 (83)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	五結切	魚列切
Baxter	nget	ngjet
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋet̚/	/ŋˠiᴇt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋet̚/	/ŋᵚiɛt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛt̚/	/ŋiæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛt̚/	/ŋiat̚/
Li Rong	/ŋet̚/	/ŋjɛt̚/
Wang Li	/ŋiet̚/	/ŋĭɛt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋiet̚/	/ŋi̯ɛt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yè	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jit6	jit6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤet/, /*ŋr[e]t/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeːd/, /*ŋred/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	闑	闑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	niè	niè
Middle Chinese	‹ nget ›	‹ ngjet ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˁet/	/*ŋr[e]t/
English	vertical post or pole	vertical post
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	闑	闑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9525	9526
Phonetic component	臬	臬
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	齧	孼
Old Chinese	/*ŋeːd/	/*ŋred/

Definitions

闑

1. ^† short vertical wooden divider of a doorway

   • 君入門，介拂闑。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     君入门，介拂𫔶。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE

     Jūn rù mén, jiè fú niè. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. ^† gate on the outer city wall

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B05511

Japanese

Kanji

闑

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げつ (getsu); げち (gechi); けい (kei); き (ki)
• Kun: しきみ (shikimi)