宄

宄 U+5B84, 宄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B84 ← 它 [U+5B83] CJK Unified Ideographs 宅 → [U+5B85]

Translingual

Han character

宄 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+2, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十大弓 (JKN), four-corner 3041₇, composition ⿱宀九)

Derived characters

• 𣲼, 𤝨, 𱀊, 𣸴, 𡧌, 𡧫, 𡫄

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 281, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7058
• Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 910, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5B84

Chinese

simp. and trad.		宄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宄
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʷrɯwʔ): semantic 宀 + phonetic 九 (OC *kuʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): guǐ (gui³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kúi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: guǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: guěi
    • Wade–Giles: kuei³
    • Yale: gwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: goei
    • Palladius: гуй (guj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwai²
    • Yale: gwái
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: guei²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kúi
    • Tâi-lô: kuí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kui⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: kwijX

Rime
Character	宄
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居洧切
Baxter	kwijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjwiX/
Li Rong	/kjuiX/
Wang Li	/kwiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwai2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷrɯwʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	宄
Reading #	1/1
No.	6960
Phonetic component	九
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	軌
Old Chinese	/*kʷrɯwʔ/

Definitions

宄

1. (literary) bad person; scoundrel; evildoer; malefactor

Synonyms

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• 兇徒 / 凶徒 (xiōngtú)
• 壞人 / 坏人 (huàirén)
• 壞人子 / 坏人子 (fai⁵ ren² zr) (Xiang)
• 壞分子 / 坏分子 (huàifènzǐ)
• 壞蛋 / 坏蛋 (huàidàn) (derogatory)
• 姦人 / 奸人 (jiānrén)
• 孬人 (mo² nang⁵) (Teochew)
• 惡人 / 恶人 (èrén)
• 惡徒 / 恶徒 (ètú)
• 拐家伙 (guai³ jia¹ ho) (Xiang)
• 歹人 (dǎirén)
• 歹囝 (Hokkien)
• 歹徒 (dǎitú)
• 海賊 / 海贼 (hāi-*chĕk) (Eastern Min)
• 衰人 (seoi¹ jan⁴) (Cantonese)

Compounds

• 奸宄 (jiānguǐ)
• 庇匿奸宄
• 盤诘奸宄

References

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

Japanese

Kanji

宄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: みだれ (midare, 宄れ)、みこしま (mikoshima, 宄)

Vietnamese

Han character

宄: Hán Nôm readings: quỹ

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References

• Nom Foundation