綦

Translingual

Han character

綦 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿金女戈火 (TCVIF), four-corner 4490₀, composition ⿱其糸)

1. dark grey
2. variegated
3. superlative

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 926, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27555
• Dae Jaweon: page 1364, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3409, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7DA6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		綦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 綦
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

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	綦
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ](r)ə/, /*[ɡ](r)ə-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	綦	綦	綦
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí	qí	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gi ›	‹ gi ›	‹ giH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ](r)ə/	/*[ɡ](r)ə/	/*[ɡ](r)ə-s/
English	gray or bluish-black	sandal cord	sandal cord
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	綦
Reading #	1/1
No.	9955
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 綦

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Japanese

Kanji

綦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki); ぎ (gi)
• Kun: あやぎぬ (ayaginu)

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Korean

Hanja

綦 (eum 기 (gi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

綦: Hán Nôm readings: cơ, kì

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References

• Nom Foundation