彗

See also: 篲

彗 U+5F57, 彗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F57 ← 彖 [U+5F56] CJK Unified Ideographs 彘 → [U+5F58]

Translingual

Han character

彗 (radical 58, 彐+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手十尸一 (QJSM), four-corner 5517₄, composition ⿱⿰丰丰彐)

Derived terms

• 慧, 嘒, 𦄑, 槥, 熭, 䨮, 鏏

References

• KangXi: page 362, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9927
• Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 961, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5F57

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		彗
variant forms		篲

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (彗) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
櫘	*sqʰʷeds
彗	*sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids
篲	*sɢʷeds
鏏	*sɢʷeds
槥	*sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
轊	*sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds
熭	*ɢʷeds, *ɢʷad
嘒	*qʰʷeːds
暳	*qʰʷeːds
嚖	*qʰʷeds
慧	*ɡʷeːds
蔧	*sɢʷids
雪	*sqʰʷed

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids): 甡 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – to hold a broom which is made of bamboo.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huì (hui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶, wai⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): hūi
• Wu (Wiktionary): hhue (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: huì
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade–Giles: hui⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huey
    • IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶, wai⁶
    • Yale: seuih, waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶, wai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶, wei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²²/, /wɐi̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūi
    • Tâi-lô: huī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hui
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hui²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hui²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hui³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hui³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhue (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦɯe̞²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 彗
Mandarin	Beijing	/xuei⁵¹/
	Harbin	/xuei⁵³/
	Tianjin	/xuei⁵³/
	Jinan	/xuei²¹/
	Qingdao	/xue⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/xuei³¹²/
	Xi'an	/xuei⁴⁴/
	Xining	/xuɨ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/xuei¹³/
	Lanzhou	/xuei¹³/
	Ürümqi	/xuei²¹³/
	Wuhan	/xuei³⁵/
	Chengdu	/xuei¹³/
	Guiyang	/xuei²¹³/
	Kunming	/xuei²¹²/
	Nanjing	/xuəi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/xue⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/xuei⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/xuei⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦue²³/
	Suzhou	/ɦue̞³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦui¹³/
	Wenzhou	/vu²²/
Hui	Shexian	/xue²²/
	Tunxi	/xuə⁴²/
Xiang	Changsha	/fei⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/ɸəi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/fi⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/fui⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/wɐi²²/
	Nanning	/wɐi²²/
	Hong Kong	/wɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/sui²²/ /hui²²/ 俗
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/suɔi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/xy⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/hui³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/hui³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ziuɪ^H/, /ɦˠiuᴇi^H/, /ziuᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	彗	彗	彗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	云 (35)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)	祭 (38)	祭 (36)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	徐醉切	于歲切	祥歲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ziuɪH/	/ɦˠiuᴇiH/	/ziuᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/zʷiH/	/ɦʷᵚieiH/	/zʷiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/zjuɪH/	/ɣiuæiH/	/ziuæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zwiH/	/ɦjwiajH/	/zwiajH/
Li Rong	/zuiH/	/ɣjuɛiH/	/ziuɛiH/
Wang Li	/zwiH/	/ɣĭwɛiH/	/zĭwɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/zwiH/	/i̯wɛiH/	/zi̯wɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì	wèi	suì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɢʷeds/, /*ɢʷeds/, /*sɢʷids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huì
Middle Chinese	‹ zjwejH ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-s/
English	broom; comet
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	彗	彗	彗
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	5462	5467	5475
Phonetic component	彗	彗	彗
Rime group	祭	祭	至
Rime subdivision	2	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	篲	衞	遂
Old Chinese	/*sɢʷeds/	/*ɢʷeds/	/*sɢʷids/

Definitions

彗

1. broomstick
2. comet

Compounds

• 周期彗星
• 哈雷彗星
• 彗尾
• 彗星 (huìxīng)

• 彗氾畫塗／彗氾画涂
• 擁彗先驅／拥彗先驱
• 擁彗迎門／拥彗迎门

• 日中必彗
• 畢拉彗星／毕拉彗星
• 百武彗星

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Japanese

Kanji

彗

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. comet

Readings

• Go-on: ずい (zui); ぜい (zei)
• Kan-on: すい (sui); せい (sei)
• Kun: ほうき (hōki, 彗)

Compounds

Compounds

• 彗星 (すいせい) (suisei): comet

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Korean

Hanja

彗 • (hye, se) (hangeul 혜, 세, revised hye, se, McCune–Reischauer hye, se, Yale hyey, sey)

1. broomstick
2. comet

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Vietnamese

Han character

彗: Hán Việt readings: tuệ

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