己

See also: 已 and 巳

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

己	己	己
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	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

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• こ
• コ

References

• KangXi: Template:Han KangXi link, 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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Cantonese

Hanzi

己 (Jyutping gei2, Yale gei2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

己 (POJ kí, Guangdong ki³, Hagfa Pinyim gi3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

己

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki), こ (ko)
• Kun: おのれ (onore), つちのと (tsuchinoto)
• Nanori: み (mi)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

己 (Pinyin jǐ (ji3), Wade-Giles chi³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

己 (giə̌)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

己 (TLPA kí (ki²), kī (ki⁷))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

己 (kỷ, kỉ, anh)