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Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes
Stroke order

Han character

(Kangxi radical 154, +0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 月山金 (BUC), four-corner 60800, composition )

  1. Kangxi radical #154, .

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1204, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36656
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1665, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3622, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8C9D

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – cowry.

Etymology

Cowries were used as money in ancient China (Shell money). Guo (1945) proposes that cowries used by the ancient Chinese dynasties in Central China must have come from the southeastern shores of China and areas further south, as the species of sea snail used as decoration and currency—Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (money cowry)—is not native to the eastern seashores of China. He further proposes that in addition to the cowry itself, the word for cowry, , is also an ancient loanword from languages of the south (which call it “bia”).

Compare Malay bia (cowry), Thai เบี้ย (bîia, cowry shell; money), Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓa(a)j (bean, small weight or coin) > Khasi sbâi, 'bâi (money, cowry, shell), Khmer ពៃ (pɨy, obsolete small coin).

Alternatively, Starostin, Matisoff (2003) and Schuessler (2007) relate to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bwap (snail), via (OC *paːds) < *pāps. If so it would be cognate with Jingpho pawp, lapawp (snail).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage)

  1. shellfish; cowrie
  2. money; currency
  3. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

(First grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Etymology

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かい
Grade: 1
kun'yomi

/*kapi1//kaɸi//kawi//kai/

From Old Japanese.[1] Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

(かい) (kaiかひ (kafi)?

  1. a shellfish

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^
    c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 15, poem 3709:
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Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 조개 (jogae pae))

  1. hanja form? of (clam, shellfish)

Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) (bối, buổi, bói, búi, với, mấy, mới, vuối, thói)

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