耆

耆 U+8006, 耆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8006 ← 者 [U+8005] CJK Unified Ideographs 耇 → [U+8007]

Translingual

Han character

耆 (radical 125 老+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十心日 (JPA), four-corner 4460₁, composition ⿱老日)

1. man of sixty
2. aged, old

Usage notes

This character has two indices in kRSUnicode: <老+4> and <日+6>. The latter index is probably for Japanese.

References

• KangXi: page 961, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28849
• Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2780, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8006

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		耆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (旨) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
稽	*kiː, *kʰiːʔ
詣	*ŋɡiːs
栺	*ŋɡiːs, *kji
榰	*klje
脂	*kji
鴲	*kji, *kjis
指	*kjiʔ
旨	*kjiʔ
恉	*kjiʔ
嗜	*ɡjis
蓍	*qʰlji
鰭	*ɡri
耆	*ɡri
鮨	*ɡri
鬐	*ɡri

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí, shì, zhǐ (qi², shi⁴, zhi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ, ㄕˋ, ㄓˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shì
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ
    • Wade-Giles: shih⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄓˇ
    • Wade-Giles: chih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʐ̩²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡiɪ/▼

Rime
Character	耆
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠脂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gi/
Li Rong	/ɡi/
Wang Li	/ɡi/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]rij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡri/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	耆
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qí
Middle Chinese	‹ gij ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]rij/
English	old
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	耆
Reading #	1/1
No.	17332
Phonetic component	旨
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鬐
Old Chinese	/*ɡri/

Definitions

耆

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Compounds

• 伊耆氏
• 紳耆／绅耆
• 老耆
• 耆儒
• 耆儒碩德／耆儒硕德
• 耆儒碩望／耆儒硕望
• 耆儒碩老／耆儒硕老

• 耆宿
• 耆年
• 耆年碩德／耆年硕德
• 耆德
• 耆碩／耆硕
• 耆童
• 耆老

• 耆耇
• 耆臘／耆腊
• 耆舊／耆旧
• 耆艾
• 耆英
• 薄耆

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Japanese

Kanji

耆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi), し (shi), じ (ji)
• Kan’on: き (ki), し (shi)
• Kun: おいる (oiru)

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Korean

Hanja

耆 • (gi, chi) (hangeul 기, 치, revised gi, chi, McCune-Reischauer ki, ch'i, Yale ki, chi)

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