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)

1. sunflower
2. measure

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, Beijing)⁺
    • 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 (Xiamen): /kui²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kui²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kui¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kui²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kui²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khûi
    • Tâi-lô: khuî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: quii
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰui²⁴/
    • IPA (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

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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
• 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)

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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