紀

See also: 纪

Translingual

Han character

紀 (radical 120 糸+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸山 (VFSU), four-corner 2791₇, composition ⿰糹己)

1. record, annal, historical account
2. century

References

• KangXi: page 915, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27234
• Dae Jaweon: page 1342, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3366, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7D00

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Chinese

trad.		紀
simp.		纪

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jì (ji⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei², gei³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jih
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei², gei³
    • Yale: géi, gei
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei², gei³
    • IPA ^(key): /kei̯³⁵/, /kei̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kɨ^X/▼

Rime
Character	紀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/kieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨX/
Li Rong	/kiəX/
Wang Li	/kĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*k(r)əʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kɯʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	紀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ kiX ›
Old Chinese	/*k(r)əʔ/
English	leading thread
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	紀
Reading #	1/1
No.	5766
Phonetic component	己
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kɯʔ/

Definitions

紀

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Compounds

• 紀念品／纪念品 (jìniànpǐn)

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Japanese

Kanji

紀

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: こ (ko)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: おさめる (osameru), のり (nori), しるす (shirusu)

Compounds

• 紀元
• 紀元前
• 紀行
• 記紀
• 世紀
• 千年紀

• 三畳紀
• 二畳紀
• 白亜紀
• ペルム紀
• 紀伊
• 紀州

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Korean

Hanja

紀 • ‎(gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

紀 (kỉ, kỷ, kỹ, kĩ)

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