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U+5668, 器
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5668

[U+5667]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5669]
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U+FA38, 器
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA38

[U+FA37]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+FA39]
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𠾖 U+20F96, 𠾖
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-20F96
𠾕
[U+20F95]
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B 𠾗
[U+20F97]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

  • In all regions except Japan, the middle component is written , which is the orthodox form found in the Kangxi dictionary.
  • In Japanese shinjitai, the middle component is written instead of (the upper right dot is missing). Due to Han unification, both forms are encoded using the same code point. This character may appear to be different depending on the font used.
  • A CJK compatibility ideograph exists at U+FA38 for the kyūjitai form of which has as the middle component.
  • Another character, 𠾖 (U+20F96) exists for the historical form found in the Ming dynasty 《直音篇》 Chinese dictionary which is similar to Japanese shinjitai.

Han character

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(Kangxi radical 30, +13 in Chinese and Korean, 口+12 in Japanese, 16 strokes in Chinese and Korean, 15 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 口口戈大口 (RRIKR), four-corner 66663, composition (GHTKV) or (J))

Derived characters

  • 𮣦, 𢻪, 𣀬, 𥀴, 𤼅, 𥷇, 𩆮, 𬑀

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 210, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4349
  • Dae Jaweon: page 432, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 690, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5668
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 器, Western Zhou ...

Uncertain. The classical interpretation is an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): a (“dog”) guarding four (“vessels”).

It might also be a phonetically borrowed character, originally meaning “to bark” (Compare ).

Another theory states the character is derived from (“mourning”). (Compare , , ). Borrowed not for sound but as an ideogram (指事) referring to a funerary urn.

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. device; tool; utensil; ware
          utensil
  2. (medicine, biology) organ
       guān   organ
  3. capacity; tolerance
       liàng   tolerance
  4. talent; ability
    晚成   wǎnchéng   [idiom] A great talent takes time to mature.
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to think highly of
       zhòng   to regard highly

Synonyms

  • (device):
  • (organ): 器官 (qìguān)
  • (to think highly of):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (ki)
  • Korean: 기(器) (gi)

Others:

  • Korean: 그릇 (geureut, receptacle; bowl; capacity; tolerance) (Pan, 2006)

References

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