歧

See also: 岐

歧 U+6B67, 歧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B67 ← 武 [U+6B66] CJK Unified Ideographs 歨 → [U+6B68]

Translingual

Han character

歧 (radical 77, 止+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜一十水 (YMJE), four-corner 2414₇, composition ⿰止支)

1. side road, fork of a road
2. divergent, branching off

References

• KangXi: page 576, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16275
• Dae Jaweon: page 966, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1440, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6B67

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		歧
variant forms		岐 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (支) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
支	*kje
枝	*kje
肢	*kje
汥	*kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼	*kje
馶	*kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷	*kje
忮	*kjes
伎	*kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉	*ɡjes
翅	*qʰjes
翄	*qʰjes, *ɡe
妓	*kre, *ɡreʔ
庋	*kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂	*kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑	*kʰes, *ɡe
吱	*kʰes
岐	*ɡe
歧	*ɡe
鬾	*ɡre, *ɡres
技	*ɡreʔ
芰	*ɡres
攱	*kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪	*kʷreʔ
頍	*kʰʷeʔ
屐	*ɡreɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ki⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ki⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khî
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡiᴇ/▼

Rime
Character	歧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨支切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡie/
Wang Li	/ɡǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-ke/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gjie ›
Old Chinese	/*N-ke/ (dialect: no palatalization)
English	forked (road)
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	歧
Reading #	1/1
No.	17221
Phonetic component	支
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

歧

1. fork; divide
2. different; divergent

Compounds

• 兩歧／两歧
• 分歧 (fēnqí)
• 多歧亡羊
• 多歧援喻
• 女歧
• 引入歧途
• 徘徊歧路
• 徬徨歧路
• 徬徨歧途
• 性別歧視／性别歧视 (xìngbié qíshì)

• 村路歧
• 歧亭 (Qítíng)
• 歧出
• 歧念
• 歧旁
• 歧異／歧异 (qíyì)
• 歧義／歧义 (qíyì)
• 歧見／歧见 (qíjiàn)
• 歧視／歧视 (qíshì)

• 歧路 (qílù)
• 歧路亡羊
• 歧途 (qítú)
• 種族歧視／种族歧视 (zhǒngzú qíshì)
• 紛歧／纷歧
• 臨歧／临歧
• 誤入歧途／误入歧途 (wùrùqítú)
• 麥秀兩歧／麦秀两歧
• 麥穗兩歧／麦穗两歧

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Japanese

Kanji

歧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki); ぎ (gi)
• Kun: ゆび (yubi); わかれる (wakareru)

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Korean

Hanja

歧 (eum 기 (gi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

歧: Hán Nôm readings: kì

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References

• Nom Foundation