葵

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

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

葵 (radical 140, 艸+9, 13 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 12 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿弓人大 (TNOK), four-corner 44804 or 44430, composition ⿱艹癸)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 葵
simp. # 葵

Glyph origin[edit]

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[edit]

Note:
  • kûi/khûi - literary;
  • khêr/khê/khôe/kôe - vernacular.
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
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[edit]

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[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

葵

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings[edit]

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

Compounds[edit]

Compounds


Kanji in this term
葵
あおい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. hollyhock

Proper noun[edit]

葵 (hiragana あおい, rōmaji Aoi)

  1. A male or female given name

References[edit]

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

葵 (quỳ)

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