葵

葵 U+8475, 葵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8475 ← 葴 [U+8474] CJK Unified Ideographs 葶 → [U+8476]

Translingual

Han character

葵 (radical 140 艸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓人大 (TNOK), four-corner 4443₀, composition ⿱艹癸)

References

• KangXi: page 1046, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31458
• Dae Jaweon: page 1507, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3258, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8475

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		葵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (癸) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
睽	*kʰʷiːl
湀	*kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd
聧	*kʰʷiː
藈	*kʰʷiːl
癸	*kʷilʔ
葵	*ɡʷil
鄈	*ɡʷil
楑	*ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ
戣	*ɡʷril
鍨	*ɡʷril
騤	*ɡʷril, *kʷiːd
揆	*ɡʷilʔ
猤	*ɡʷils
闋	*kʰʷiːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡʷil): semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 癸 (OC *kʷilʔ) – a kind of plant.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuí (kui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): kûi / khûi / khêr / khê / khôe / kôe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade-Giles: k'uei²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kwei
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwai⁴
    • Yale: kwàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kûi
    • Tâi-lô: kuî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuii
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kui²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /kui²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kui¹³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khûi
    • Tâi-lô: khuî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: quii
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /kʰui²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khêr
    • Tâi-lô: khêr
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰə²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khê
    • Tâi-lô: khê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qee
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khôe
    • Tâi-lô: khuê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: qoee
    • IPA (Taipei): /kʰue²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰue²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰue¹³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kôe
    • Tâi-lô: kuê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koee
    • IPA (Taipei): /kue²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kue²³/

Note:

• kûi/khûi - literary;
• khêr/khê/khôe/kôe - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡiuɪ/▼

Rime
Character	葵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠隹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gwi/
Li Rong	/ɡui/
Wang Li	/ɡwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/gwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*ɡʷij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷil/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	葵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuí
Middle Chinese	‹ gjwij ›
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷij/
English	mallow
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	葵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4646
Phonetic component	癸
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	葵
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷil/
Notes	原重渠追切依切三王韻改

Definitions

葵

1. name of several plants
   1. Short for 冬葵 (“Malva verticillata (syn. Malva crispa)”).
   2. Short for 蒲葵 (púkuí, “Livistona chinensis”).
   3. Short for 落葵 (luòkuí, “Basella alba”).
   4. Short for 向日葵 (xiàngrìkuí, “sunflower”).
2. Alternative form of 揆 (kuí).
3. A surname​.

Compounds

• 向日葵 (xiàngrìkuí)
• 天竺葵
• 憂葵／忧葵
• 扇葉蒲葵／扇叶蒲葵
• 拔葵
• 拔葵去織／拔葵去织
• 拔葵啖棗／拔葵啖枣
• 洛神葵 (luòshénkuí)
• 海葵 (hǎikuí)

• 茙葵
• 菟葵
• 落葵 (luòkuí)
• 葵傾／葵倾
• 葵扇
• 葵花 (kuíhuā)
• 葵花子
• 葵藿
• 蒲葵 (púkuí)

• 蒲葵扇
• 蔠葵
• 蜀葵 (shǔkuí)
• 錦葵／锦葵 (jǐnkuí)
• 露葵
• 魯女憂葵／鲁女忧葵
• 鳧葵／凫葵
• 龍葵／龙葵 (lóngkuí)

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Japanese

Kanji

葵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi)
• Kan’on: き (ki)
• Kun: あおい (aoi, 葵)

Compounds

Compounds

• 山葵 (わさび) (wasabi): wasabi

Kanji in this term
葵
あおい Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) あおい [àóí] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [a̠o̞i]

Noun

葵 (hiragana あおい, rōmaji aoi, historical hiragana あふひ)

1. hollyhock

Proper noun

葵 (hiragana あおい, rōmaji Aoi)

1. A male or female given name

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Korean

Hanja

葵 • (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune-Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

葵 (quỳ)

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