鬩

See also: 阋

Translingual

Traditional	鬩
Shinjitai (extended)	䦧
Simplified	阋

Han character

鬩 (Kangxi radical 191, 鬥+8, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中弓竹難山 (LNHXU), four-corner 7721₇, composition ⿵鬥兒)

1. feud, fight, quarrel

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1457, character 37
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45644
• Dae Jaweon: page 1989, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4516, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9B29

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Chinese

trad.		鬩
simp.		阋
alternative forms		䦧／阋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
掜	*rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	*ŋeː, *ŋeː
霓	*ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	*ŋeː, *ŋje
觬	*ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
堄	*ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɦŋeːɡ) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 鬥 + phonetic 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik¹ / hik¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hek / hiak / gé

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hêg⁴ / ngi³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jik¹ / hik¹
    • Yale: yīk / hīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁷ / hik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig¹ / hig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚⁵/, /hɪk̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hek
    • Tâi-lô: hik
    • Phofsit Daibuun: heg
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hiɪk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiak
    • Tâi-lô: hiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hiag
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hiak̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gé
    • Tâi-lô: gé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gea
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡe⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hêg⁴ / ngi³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hek / ngì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hek̚²/, /ŋi²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: xek

Rime
Character	鬩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	許激切
Baxter	xek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/xek̚/
Wang Li	/xiek̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xiek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ̊]ˤek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦŋeːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鬩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xì
Middle Chinese	‹ xek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ̊]ˁek/
English	wrangle
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	鬩
Reading #	1/1
No.	2763
Phonetic component	兒
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	檄
Old Chinese	/*ɦŋeːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鬩

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References

• “鬩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

鬩

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 䦧)

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Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: けき (keki)
• Kan’yō-on: げき (geki)
• Kun: せめぐ (semegu, 鬩ぐ)

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Korean

Hanja

鬩 (eum 혁 (hyeok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

鬩: Hán Nôm readings: huých, huỵch

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References

• Nom Foundation