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U+5176, 其
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5176

[U+5175]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5177]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 12, +6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿一一金 (TMMC), four-corner 44801, composition 𠄠)

Derived characters

See also

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 127, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1472
  • Dae Jaweon: page 286, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 245, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5176
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Bala

Etymology

Cognate with Manchu ᠊ᠴᡳ (-ci).

Suffix

(-qi)

  1. Used to form the ablative case.

References

  • “The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica, volume 9, number 1, 2021, pages 173–191

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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In the oracle bone script, it was originally 𠀠, a pictogram (象形) of a basket.

In the bronze inscriptions, was added under the basket to represent a stand. It may also have acted as a phonetic component. Hence, the modified version was 𠔝. See also the bottom component of .

Later borrowed for an Old Chinese pronoun. The derivative (OC *kɯ) refers to the original word.

Etymology

third-person possessive pronoun
Schuessler (2007) notes its origin is not certain because in the linguistic area pronouns tend to be of the shape KV (K=velar stop; V=vowel). Perhaps Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo khi (that), Tibetan -ཀྱི, -གྱི (-kyi, -gyi, genitive suffix), but a Tibeto-Burman /a/ should be expected in this set. Alternatively, Proto-Austroasiatic *ki/ke ~ *ku/ko (third person pronoun) whose earliest form is perhaps *kɨ (Pinnow, 1965) appears to be phonologically closest to the OC word. (OC *ɡɯ) may be related to (OC *ɡa, “he”).
modal particle "should; probably"
Probably cognate with (OC *ɡɯ, “stipulated time; time”), (OC *kɯ, “year”) (Serruys, 1982).

Pronunciation 1



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Definitions

  1. his; her; its; their
    各司各司   gèsīzhí   each person performs his own function
  2. he; she; it; they; one
    所好   tóusuǒhào   to adapt to somebody's taste (lit. to cater to that which one likes)
  3. that; those
  4. (literary) among which; therein
  5. (literary) probably; perhaps
    Synonyms: 大概 (dàgài), 或許 / 或许 (huòxǔ)
  6. (obsolete) particle indicating intention; let, shall, will
  7. (literary) adverb indicating a rhetorical question
    Synonyms:  / (), 難道 / 难道 (nándào)
  8. (literary) adverb indicating imperative
  9. (obsolete) if
  10. (obsolete) conjunction indicating a question with choices; or
  11. (Eastern Min or obsolete) possessive particle.
  12. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Pronunciation 2



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Definitions

  1. (obsolete) Used at the end of a sentence to show doubt.
  2. (obsolete) Used in personal names.
       Lì Yì   Li Yiji (an advisor to Liu Bang)

Descendants

  • Vietnamese:

Pronunciation 3


Definitions

  1. (archaic) only used in 彼其

References

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Japanese

Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: (gi) (go)
  • Kan-on: (ki)
  • Kun: その (sono, 其の)それ (sore, 其れ)それ (sore, ) (shi, )
  • Nanori: その (sono)

Compounds

Pronoun

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() (shi) 

  1. (archaic) that
  2. you
  3. oneself
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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC gi).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun (geu gi))

  1. (literary) hanja form? of (therein)
  2. (literary) hanja form? of (his; her; its; their)
  3. (literary) hanja form? of (that; those)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: , kỳ, , khởi

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