揭

See also: 掲

Translingual

Han character

揭 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手日心女 (QAPV), four-corner 5602₇, composition ⿰扌曷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 444, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12389
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1916, character 5
• Unihan data for U+63ED

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Chinese

trad.		揭
simp. #		揭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 揭
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
愒	*kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤	*qaːds
靄	*qaːds, *qaːd
餲	*qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝	*qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭	*kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈	*ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲	*kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛	*kaːd
輵	*kaːd
獦	*klaːd, *rab
渴	*kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑	*kʰaːd
暍	*qʰaːd, *qad
曷	*ɡaːd
褐	*ɡaːd
鶡	*ɡaːd
毼	*ɡaːd
蝎	*ɡaːd
鞨	*ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏	*qaːd
齃	*qaːd
堨	*qaːd
擖	*kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬	*kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅	*kʰrad
藒	*kʰrad
竭	*ɡrad, *ɡad
碣	*ɡrad, *ɡad
羯	*kad
鍻	*kad
歇	*qʰad
蠍	*qʰad
謁	*qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揭

1. to raise
2. to uncover; to unveil; to lift up
3. to expose; to reveal
4. to tear off; to take off
5. a surname

Synonyms

• (to uncover): (Cantonese) 㨴 (kin2)

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiē (jie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kit³
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gig⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiē
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jie
    • Wade–Giles: chieh¹
    • Yale: jyē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jie
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kit³
    • Yale: kit
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kit⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: kid³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰiːt̚³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gig⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kik̚²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揭

1. Used in place names.

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qì (qi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai⁶ / hei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qì
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cì
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴
    • Yale: chì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gai⁶ / hei³
    • Yale: gaih / hei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai⁶ / hei³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gei⁶ / héi³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯²²/, /hei̯³³/

Note: hei3 - variant.

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• Middle Chinese: khjejH

Rime
Character	揭
Reading #	1/6
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	祭 (37)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去例切
Baxter	khjejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjiajH/
Li Rong	/kʰjɛiH/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰ<r>at-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰrads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	揭
Reading #	3/5
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiē
Middle Chinese	‹ khjejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰ<r>at-s/
English	lift up one’s clothes
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	揭
Reading #	1/6
No.	5017
Phonetic component	曷
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	憩
Old Chinese	/*kʰrads/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揭

1. to lift up one’s clothes

Pronunciation 4

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hé
    • Wade–Giles: ho²
    • Yale: hé
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • Palladius: хэ (xɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 揭

1. ^‡ to block up

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	掲
Kyūjitai	揭

Kanji

揭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 掲)

1. to raise
2. to lift up

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei); けつ (ketsu)
• Kun: かかげる (kakageru, 揭げる)

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Korean

Hanja

揭 • (ge, gal) (hangeul 게, 갈, revised ge, gal, McCune–Reischauer ke, kal, Yale key, kal)

1. lift up

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 揭 (yết)

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