喟

喟 U+559F, 喟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559F ← 喞 [U+559E] CJK Unified Ideographs 喠 → [U+55A0]

Translingual

Han character

喟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口田月 (RWB), four-corner 6602₇, composition ⿰口胃)

Derived characters

• 𣽴

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 199, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3963
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 654, character 3
• Unihan data for U+559F

Chinese

trad.		喟
simp. #		喟
alternative forms		𠷝

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
喟	*kʰruːds, *kʰruds
胃	*ɢuds
謂	*ɢuds
媦	*ɢuds
蝟	*ɢuds
渭	*ɢuds
煟	*ɢuds
緭	*ɢuds

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuì (kui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai² / wai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuèi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuei⁴
    • Yale: kwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuey
    • Palladius: куй (kuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai² / wai⁶
    • Yale: wái / waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai² / wai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei² / wei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯³⁵/, /wɐi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: khwijH, khweajH

Rime
Character	喟	喟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)	皆 (34)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	丘愧切	苦怪切
Baxter	khwijH	khweajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiuɪH/	/kʰˠuɛiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷᵚiH/	/kʰʷᵚæiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiuɪH/	/kʰuɐiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjwiH/	/kʰwəɨjH/
Li Rong	/kʰjuiH/	/kʰuɛiH/
Wang Li	/kʰwiH/	/kʰwɐiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰwiH/	/kʰwăiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuì	kuài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai3	faai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷʰˤrə[t]-s/, /*[k]ʷʰrə[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰruːds/, /*kʰruds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	喟	喟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuì	kuì
Middle Chinese	‹ khwɛjH ›	‹ khwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷʰˁrə[t]-s/	/*[k]ʷʰrə[t]-s/
English	sigh	sigh
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	喟	喟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12940	12941
Phonetic component	胃	胃
Rime group	隊	隊
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蒯	喟
Old Chinese	/*kʰruːds/	/*kʰruds/

Definitions

喟

1. (literary) to heave a sigh; to sigh

Compounds

• 不勝感喟 / 不胜感喟
• 喟嘆 / 喟叹
• 喟然 (kuìrán)
• 喟然而嘆 / 喟然而叹
• 感喟
• 慷喟
• 歎喟 / 叹喟

Japanese

Kanji

喟

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sigh

Readings

• Go-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)}
• Kan-on: き (ki)^{←き (ki, historical)←くゐ (kwi, ancient)}
• Kun: なげく (nageku, 喟く)、ためいき (tameiki, 喟)

Korean

Hanja

喟 • (wi, goe) (hangeul 위, 괴, revised wi, goe, McCune–Reischauer wi, koe, Yale wi, koy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

喟: Hán Nôm readings: vị

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