秸

秸 U+79F8, 秸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79F8 ← 秷 [U+79F7] CJK Unified Ideographs 秹 → [U+79F9]

Translingual

Han character

秸 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 竹木土口 (HDGR), four-corner 2496₁, composition ⿰禾吉)

1. stalks left after threshing

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 852, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25039
• Dae Jaweon: page 1277, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2602, character 6
• Unihan data for U+79F8

Chinese

trad.		秸/稭
simp.		秸

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
秸	*kriːl, *kriːd
髻	*kiːds
夡	*kʰids
鴶	*kriːd
袺	*kriːd, *kiːd
頡	*kriːd, *ɡiːd
劼	*kʰriːd
硈	*kʰriːd
咭	*kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠	*ɡriːd
聐	*ŋreːd
趌	*ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid
結	*kiːd
拮	*kiːd, *klid
桔	*kiːd
狤	*kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid
擷	*qʰiːd, *ɡiːd
襭	*ɡiːd
翓	*ɡiːd
纈	*ɡiːd
吉	*klid
郆	*kid
詰	*kʰid
蛣	*kʰid
佶	*ɡlid, *ɡrid
鮚	*ɡrid
姞	*ɡrid
欯	*qʰlid
恄	*qʰlid

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiē (jie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kai

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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: gaai¹
    • Yale: gāai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gai¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kai
    • Tâi-lô: kai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kay
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kai⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kai³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /kai⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kai⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kai⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: keat

Rime
Character	秸
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古黠切
Baxter	keat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/kɛt̚/
Wang Li	/kæt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jia
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaat3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤri[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kriːl/, /*kriːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秸
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiē
Middle Chinese	‹ kɛt ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁri[t]/
English	stalk of grain
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	秸	秸
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5668	5672
Phonetic component	吉	吉
Rime group	脂	質
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	皆	戛
Old Chinese	/*kriːl/	/*kriːd/
Notes	稭䕸今字

Definitions

秸

1. grain stalk left after threshing

Compounds

• 秫秸
• 秸子
• 秸稈 / 秸秆 (jiēgǎn)
• 芝麻秸
• 苴秸
• 藁秸
• 豆秸 (dòujiē)
• 豆秸灰
• 麥秸 / 麦秸 (màijiē)
• 麻秸

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jí (ji²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jí
    • Wade–Giles: chi²
    • Yale: jí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyi
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi³⁵/

Definitions

秸

1. only used in 秸鞠

Japanese

Kanji

秸

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. stalks of millet
2. corn

Readings

• On (unclassified): かつ (katsu)、きつ (kitsu)、けち (kechi)、きち (kichi)

Korean

Hanja

秸 • (gal) (hangeul 갈, revised gal, McCune–Reischauer kal, Yale kal)

1. straw

Vietnamese

Nom glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, gặt): semantic 禾 (“grain”) + phonetic 吉 (cát).

Han character

秸: Hán Việt readings: giai, kiết
秸: Nôm readings: gặt

1. chữ Nôm form of gặt (“to reap; to harvest”)