己

See also: 已 and 巳

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 己
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形): a loom with thread.

The character originally meant "to unravel" and was later borrowed to represent one of the ten heavenly stems. The derivative 紀 was created for the original word.

Han character

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

1. self, oneself
2. personal, private
3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems
4. Kangxi radical #49, ⼰ ‎(“oneself”).

Derived terms

• Index:Chinese radical/己
• 包 (Japanese form)

Descendants

• こ
• コ

References

• 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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		己

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jǐ (ji³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): kí
• Min Nan (POJ): kī / kí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei²
    • Yale: géi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei²
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kí
    • Hakka Romanization System: gi`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gi³
    • IPA: /ki³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kī / kí
    • Tâi-lô: kī / kí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ki, kie
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki³³/, /ki⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki²²/, /ki⁵³/
    • Note: kī - vernacular, kí - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨ^X/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*k(r)əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kɯʔ/

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

己

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References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #209”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

己

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. I (male)

Readings

• Goon: き (ki)
• Kan’on: こ (ko)
• Kun: おのれ (onore), つちのと (tsuchinoto), おら (ora)
• Nanori: み (mi)

Derived terms

• 己に克つ

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

己 (kỷ, kỉ, anh)

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