癸

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

癸	癸	癸	癸
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Unusual etymology – originally a cross potent (cross with cross-bars on its arms), it was re-analyzed as 癶 + 天 in (large) seal script.

Han character

癸 (radical 105 癶+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人一大 (NOMK), four-corner 1243₀, composition ⿱癶天)

1. the tenth of the ten heavenly stems

Derived characters

• 葵

References

• KangXi: page 783, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1193, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2760, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7678

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Cantonese

Hanzi

癸 (Yale gwai3)

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Japanese

Kanji

癸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: みずのと (mizunoto)

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Korean

Hanja

癸 (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune-Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

癸 (Pinyin guǐ (gui3), Wade-Giles kuei³)

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Vietnamese

Han character

癸 (quý, quấy, quậy)