寄

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

寄 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十大一口 (JKMR), four-corner 3062₁, composition ⿱宀奇)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 288, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7203
• Dae Jaweon: page 569, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 937, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5BC4

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		寄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
奇	*kral, *ɡral
畸	*kral
剞	*kral, *kralʔ
羇	*kral
掎	*kral, *kralʔ, *kʰrals
攲	*kral, *kralʔ, *kʰral
躸	*kral
踦	*kralʔ, *kʰral
寄	*krals
徛	*krals, *ɡralʔ
欹	*kʰral, *qral
崎	*kʰral, *ɡɯl
觭	*kʰral, *kʰralʔ
碕	*kʰral, *kʰralʔ, *ɡral, *ɡɯl
綺	*kʰralʔ
婍	*kʰralʔ
騎	*ɡral, *ɡrals
琦	*ɡral
鵸	*ɡral
錡	*ɡral, *ɡralʔ, *ŋɡralʔ
輢	*ɡrals, *qralʔ, *qrals
齮	*ŋɡralʔ
犄	*qral
猗	*qral, *qralʔ
椅	*qral, *qralʔ
旖	*qral, *qralʔ
陭	*qral, *qrals
檹	*qral
漪	*qral
倚	*qralʔ, *qrals

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *krals) : semantic 宀 (“house”) + phonetic 奇 (OC *kral, *ɡral) ― living away from home.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jì (ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ki
• Eastern Min (BUC): gié
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kià / kì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gia³

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁵ci

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jì
    • Wade–Giles: chi⁴
    • Yale: jì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gei³
    • Yale: gei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ki
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ki⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gié
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kiɛ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kià / kì
    • Tâi-lô: kià / kì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kiax, kix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kia²¹/, /ki²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kia⁴¹/, /ki⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kia²¹/, /ki²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kia¹¹/, /ki¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kia²¹/, /ki²¹/

Note:

• kià - vernacular;
• kì - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: gia³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kià
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kia²¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁵ci
    • MiniDict: ci^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ji
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕi³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: kjeH

Rime
Character	寄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居義切
Baxter	kjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjiə̆H/
Li Rong	/kjeH/
Wang Li	/kǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gei3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[k](r)aj-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krals/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jì
Middle Chinese	‹ kjeH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[k](r)aj-s/
English	entrust to
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	寄
Reading #	1/1
No.	9984
Phonetic component	奇
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	寄
Old Chinese	/*krals/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 寄

1. to entrust (with a task)
2. to depend on; to adhere to
3. to live away from home
4. to place (temporarily); to put; to deposit
5. to express or convey (one's feelings) through a medium, such as the thing one describes, composes or paints
6. to transmit (an item) on behalf of another person; to send (now chiefly through mails); to post
7. to use temporarily; to borrow
8. to grant; to gift; to bestow
9. (historical) government official in charge of translating from and into the speech of non-Chinese ethnic groups in China's east (Dongyi)
10. (historical) to send criminals into exile to the remote areas in the east, as a form of punishment
11. (of a relative) not biological; adopted
12. (historical) an alternate name used for the Dongyi tribes during the Ming Dynasty

Further reading

• “Entry #7160”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

寄

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to contribute, to donate
2. to call on
3. to lodge at somebody else's house
4. to be dependent on somebody
5. to increase, to gain
6. to draw near
7. to send away

Readings

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: よる (yoru, 寄る, Jōyō); よせる (yoseru, 寄せる, Jōyō); よせ (yose, 寄); よそる (yosoru, 寄る); よそう (yosou, 寄う); よそえる (yosoeru, 寄える); よさる (yosaru, 寄さる); よさす (yosasu, 寄さす)

Compounds

• 寄(き)付(ふ) (kifu, “donation”)
• 寄(き)贈(ぞう) (kizō, “donation”)
• 寄(き)生(せい) (kisei)
• 寄(き)与(よ) (kiyo)
• 寄(よせ)席(せき) (yoseseki)
• 寄(より)道(みち) (yorimichi)
• 年(とし)寄(より) (toshiyori)

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Korean

Hanja

寄 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Kunigami

Kanji

寄

• Kun: ゆしーるん (寄しーるん, yushīrun)

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Okinawan

Kanji

寄

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Kun: ゆしーん (yushīn, 寄しーん)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 寄 (kí, gửi, ké, kẹ, ký)

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Yaeyama

Kanji

寄

• Kun: ゆしぃるん (寄しぃるん, yusïrun)