己

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See also: 已 and 巳
己 U+5DF1, 己
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DF1
← 巰
[U+5DF0] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 已 →
[U+5DF2]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
3 strokes
Stroke order
己-order.gif

Han character[edit]

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Radical 49 己

己 (radical 49 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU), four-corner 17717)

  1. Kangxi radical #49, ⼰.

Derived characters[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 326, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8742
  • Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 983, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5DF1

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 己
Wikipedia has articles on:
• 己部 (Written Standard Chinese?)
• Radical 49 (English)
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• 己姓 (Written Standard Chinese?)
• Ji (surname 己) (English)

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 己
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
己-oracle.svg 己-bronze.svg 己-silk.svg 己-seal.svg 己-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (己) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
改 *klɯːʔ
跽 *ɡrɯʔ
己 *kɯʔ
紀 *kɯʔ
妀 *kɯʔ
記 *kɯs
杞 *kʰɯʔ
屺 *kʰɯʔ
芑 *kʰɯʔ
邔 *kʰɯʔ, *ɡɯs
玘 *kʰɯʔ
忌 *ɡɯs
鵋 *ɡɯs
誋 *ɡɯs
梞 *ɡɯs

Pictogram (象形) – silk rope for binding objects. Original form of 紀 (OC *kɯʔ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Note: kī - vernacular, kí - literary.
Note: gi7 - used in 家己.
Rime
Character 己
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɨX/
Li
Rong 		/kiəX/
Wang
Li 		/kĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 己 己
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jǐ jǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kiX › ‹ kiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*k(r)əʔ/ /*k(r)əʔ/
English 6th heavenly stem self

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 己
Reading # 1/1
No. 5765
Phonetic
component 		己
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*kɯʔ/

Definitions[edit]

己

  1. self; oneself
  2. personal; private
  3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems
  4. A surname​.

Coordinate terms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 己

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

己

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. I (male)

Readings[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
己
き
Grade: 6
on’yomi
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From Middle Chinese 己 (kiX)

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

己 (hiragana き, rōmaji Ki)

  1. the sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
己
つちのと
Grade: 6
kun’yomi

土 (Tsuchi, “Earth”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 弟 (oto, “younger brother”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

己 (hiragana つちのと, rōmaji Tsuchinoto)

  1. the sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

己 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

己 (kỷ, kỉ, anh)

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