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U+6EAA, 溪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6EAA

[U+6EA9]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6EAB]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 85, +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月女大 (EBVK), four-corner 32134, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17967
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1047, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1702, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6EAA

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #
alternative forms 谿

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *kʰeː) : semantic + phonetic (OC *ɡeː).

Etymology 1

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Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *gle, whence Chuanqiandian Cluster Miao tl̥e (river) (Schuessler, 2007). Also compare Tibetan རྐ (rka, gutter; channel) (Sagart, 2020b).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • khoe - vernacular;
    • khe - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (29)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter khej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰei/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰei/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰɛj/
Li
Rong
/kʰei/
Wang
Li
/kʰiei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hai1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ khej ›
Old
Chinese
/*kʰˁe/
English valley with stream in it

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 13360
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
谿
Old
Chinese
/*kʰeː/
Notes 谿

Definitions

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  1. stream; creek; brook; rivulet; rill (Classifier: m c)
  2. (dialectal) river (Classifier: mn)
    濁水浊水 [Taiwanese Hokkien]  ―  Lô-chúi-khe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  Zhuoshui River
  3. (Eastern Min) unsophisticated; gauche; stupid
  4. () (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of (MC khej)
  5. a surname: Xi
See also
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Compounds

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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see 谿 (“used in compounds”).
(This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 谿).
Notes:

References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai

Kyūjitai

Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. valley

Readings

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  • Go-on: (ke)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: たに (tani, )

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese (MC khej). Recorded as Middle Korean (kyey) (Yale: kyey) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 시내 (sinae gye))

  1. hanja form? of (stream)

Compounds

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References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [3]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: khe, khê

  1. Creek or stream