淇

淇 U+6DC7, 淇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DC7 ← 淆 [U+6DC6] CJK Unified Ideographs 淈 → [U+6DC8]

Translingual

Han character

淇 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水廿一金 (ETMC), four-corner 3418₁, composition ⿰氵其)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 629, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17620
• Dae Jaweon: page 1031, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1641, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6DC7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		淇

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 淇
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
期	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅	*kɯ, *ɡɯs
其	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆	*kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	*ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡɯ): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gi

Rime
Character	淇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠之切
Baxter	gi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɡĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	淇
Reading #	1/1
No.	9951
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/

Definitions 1

淇

1. (～水, ～河) The name of a river that originates in Henan.

   淇濱／淇滨  ―  Qíbīn  ―  Qibin (a district of Hebi, Henan, China)

   淇縣／淇县  ―  Qíxiàn  ―  Qi County(a county of Hebi, Henan, China)

Definitions 2

淇

1. (～河) The name of a branch of the Han River.

Compounds

• 冰淇淋 (bīngqílín)
• 淇奧 / 淇奥
• 淇水 (qí)
• 淇濱 / 淇滨 (Qíbīn, “Qibin”)
• 霜淇淋 (shuāngqílín)

Japanese

Kanji

淇

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: き (ki)

Korean

Hanja

淇 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

淇: Hán Nôm readings: kì

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Further reading

• Nom Foundation