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奚

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See also: ⿱爫夫
奚 U+595A, 奚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-595A
← 奙
[U+5959]
CJK Unified Ideographs 奛 →
[U+595B]

Translingual

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Japanese ⿱爫夫
Simplified 奚
Traditional 奚

Han character

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奚 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+7, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 月女戈大 (BVIK), four-corner 20430, composition ⿱爫𡗞)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 252, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5930
  • Dae Jaweon: page 514, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 541, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+595A

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): a hand (爪) grabbing a person (大) by their braids (幺) – “servant; slave”. In Warring States texts the bottom of the character was often simplified, making the character interchangeable with 系.

Etymology 1

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trad. 奚
simp. # 奚

Cognate with 何 (OC *ɡaːl, “what; where; why; how”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 奚
Mandarin Beijing /ɕi⁵⁵/
Harbin /ɕi⁴⁴/
Tianjin /ɕi²¹/
Jinan /ɕi²¹³/
Qingdao /ɕi²¹³/
Zhengzhou /ɕi²⁴/
Xi'an /ɕi²¹/
Xining /ɕi⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /ɕi⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /ɕi⁵³/
Ürümqi /ɕi⁴⁴/
Wuhan /ɕi⁵⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ɕi⁵⁵/
Kunming /ɕi⁴⁴/
Nanjing /ɕi²⁴/
Hefei /sz̩²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /ɕi¹¹/
Pingyao
Hohhot /ɕi³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɕi⁵³/
/ɦi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³¹/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰi³¹/
Tunxi
Xiang Changsha /ɕi³³/
Xiangtan /ɕi³³/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɐi²¹/
Nanning /hɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /hɐi²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /he³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hie⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xi⁵⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /hi²³/

Rime
Character 奚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡雞切
Baxter hej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɛj/
Li
Rong
/ɣei/
Wang
Li
/ɣiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奚
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xī
Middle
Chinese
‹ hej ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˁe/ (dial. for 何 *[ɡ]ˁaj?)
English why, what

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 奚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13364
Phonetic
component
奚
Rime
group
支
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
奚
Old
Chinese
/*ɡeː/
Notes 說文作籀文系省聲,
甲金文象抓索辮人爲奴

Definitions

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奚

  1. (literary) where? what? how? why?

Synonyms

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Etymology 2

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trad. 奚
simp. # 奚

Same word as 㜎 (MC hej) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 奚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡雞切
Baxter hej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɛj/
Li
Rong
/ɣei/
Wang
Li
/ɣiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 奚
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xī
Middle
Chinese
‹ hej ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɡ]ˁe/
English slave, servant

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 奚
Reading # 1/1
No. 13364
Phonetic
component
奚
Rime
group
支
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
奚
Old
Chinese
/*ɡeː/
Notes 說文作籀文系省聲,
甲金文象抓索辮人爲奴

Definitions

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奚

  1. (obsolete) servant; slave

Etymology 3

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trad. 奚
simp. # 奚

Possibly related to 胡 (OC *ɡaː, “barbarian”) (Atwood, 2015).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 奚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡雞切
Baxter hej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɛj/
Li
Rong
/ɣei/
Wang
Li
/ɣiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hai4

Definitions

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奚

  1. the Xi (Kumo Xi) people

Etymology 4

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trad. 奚
simp. # 奚

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 奚仲?”)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 奚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 胡雞切
Baxter hej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦɛj/
Li
Rong
/ɣei/
Wang
Li
/ɣiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hai4

Definitions

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奚

  1. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

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Shinjitai
(extended)
⿱爫夫
Print
standard
奚

Kanji

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奚

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form ⿱爫夫)

  1. servant
  2. what
  3. why

Readings

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  • Go-on: げ (ge)
  • Kan-on: けい (kei)
  • Kun: なんぞ (nanzo, 奚ぞ)、なに (nani, 奚)、しもべ (shimobe, 奚)[1]

References

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  1. ^ “奚”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

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Hanja

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奚 • (hae) (hangeul 해, revised hae, McCune–Reischauer hae)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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奚: Hán Nôm readings: hề

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