忌

忌 U+5FCC, 忌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FCC ← 忋 [U+5FCB] CJK Unified Ideographs 忍 → [U+5FCD]

Translingual

Han character

忌 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸山心 (SUP), four-corner 1733₁, composition ⿱己心)

1. jealous, envious
2. fear

References

• KangXi: page 376, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10310
• Dae Jaweon: page 702, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2270, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5FCC

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		忌

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jì (ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): kī / khī / khî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei⁶
    • Yale: geih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kī
    • Tâi-lô: kī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ki
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki³³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khī
    • Tâi-lô: khī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qi
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰi³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khî
    • Tâi-lô: khî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qii
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi²⁴/

Note:

• kī/khī - literary;
• khî - vernacular (俗).

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 忌
Mandarin	Beijing	/t͡ɕi⁵¹/
	Harbin	/t͡ɕi⁵³/
	Tianjin	/t͡ɕi⁵³/
	Jinan	/t͡ɕi²¹/
	Qingdao	/t͡ɕi⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/t͡ɕi³¹²/
	Xi'an	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Xining	/t͡ɕji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Lanzhou	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Chengdu	/t͡ɕi¹³/
	Guiyang	/t͡ɕi²¹³/
	Kunming	/t͡ɕi²¹²/
	Nanjing	/t͡ɕi⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/t͡sz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡ɕi⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/t͡ɕi³⁵/
	Hohhot	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/d͡ʑi²³/
	Suzhou	/d͡ʑi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/d͡ʑi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/d͡zz̩²²/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕʰi²²/
	Tunxi	/t͡ɕi¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡ɕʰi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/kʰi³¹/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/kei²²/
	Nanning	/ki²²/
	Hong Kong	/kei²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ki²²/ /kʰi²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/kɛi²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ki⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/ki³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ki³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨ^H/▼

Rime
Character	忌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠記切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨH/
Li Rong	/ɡiəH/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəH/
Bernard Karlgren	/giH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*m-k(r)ək-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	忌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jì
Middle Chinese	‹ giH ›
Old Chinese	/*m-k(r)ək-s/
English	warn; avoid
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	忌
Reading #	1/1
No.	5774
Phonetic component	己
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	忌
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯs/

Definitions

忌

1. to be jealous of ⇒ 妒忌
2. to avoid or abstain from
3. taboo

Compounds

• 妒忌 (dùjì)
• 威士忌 (wēishìjì)
• 忌口 (jìkǒu)
• 忌憚／忌惮 (jìdàn)

• 忌日 (jìrì)
• 忌諱／忌讳 (jìhuì)
• 猜忌 (cāijì)

• 禁忌 (jìnjì)
• 肆無忌憚／肆无忌惮 (sìwújìdàn)
• 顧忌／顾忌 (gùjì)

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Japanese

Kanji

忌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. mourning
2. to abhor
3. abhorrent, detestable
4. death anniversary

Readings

• Goon: ご (go) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: い.む (忌む, i.mu), い.み (忌み, i.mi), い.まわしい (忌まわしい, i.mawashii)
• Nanori: いまわ (imawa)

Compounds

Compounds

• 忌 (い)み嫌 (きら)う (imikirau)
• 忌 (い)み日 (び) (imibi)
• 忌日 (きにち) (kinichi)
• 忌日 (きじつ) (kijitsu)
• 回忌 (かいき) (kaiki)
• 祖忌 (そき) (soki): (Buddhism) death anniversary of a sect founder, or the memorial service thereof

Etymology

Kanji in this term
忌
き Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 忌 (gi^H).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
• (Tokyo) き​ [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [kʲi]

Noun

忌 (hiragana き, rōmaji ki)

1. mourning
2. death anniversary

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

忌 (kị, cạy, cậy, kỵ, cữ, kiêng)

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