岐

See also: 歧

岐 U+5C90, 岐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C90 ← 岏 [U+5C8F] CJK Unified Ideographs 岑 → [U+5C91]

Translingual

Han character

岐 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 山十水 (UJE), four-corner 2474₇, composition ⿰山支)

Derived characters

• 𮩣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 308, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7936
• Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 762, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5C90

Chinese

trad.		岐
simp. #		岐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
支	*kje
枝	*kje
肢	*kje
汥	*kje, *ɡe, *ɡres
衼	*kje
馶	*kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe
鳷	*kje
忮	*kjes
伎	*kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉	*ɡjes
翅	*qʰjes
翄	*qʰjes, *ɡe
妓	*kre, *ɡreʔ
庋	*kreʔ, *kʷreʔ
跂	*kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe
蚑	*kʰes, *ɡe
吱	*kʰes
岐	*ɡe
歧	*ɡe
鬾	*ɡre, *ɡres
技	*ɡreʔ
芰	*ɡres
攱	*kʷreʔ, *kʷres
庪	*kʷreʔ
頍	*kʰʷeʔ
屐	*ɡreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡe): semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 支 (OC *kje)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): gì / giè
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi² / gyor²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶ji / ²ji

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gì / giè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³/, /kie⁵³/

Note: giè - mostly in place names.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki¹³/
  • (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki²⁴/
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gyor²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyɒ¹³/

Note:

• gi2 - literary;
• gyor2 - vernacular, in place names such as 汀岐.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ji
    • MiniDict: ji^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jji
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²³/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ²ji
    • MiniDict: ji^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /d͡ʑi²²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gjie

Rime
Character	岐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巨支切
Baxter	gjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/giə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡie/
Wang Li	/ɡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岐
Reading #	1/1
No.	17220
Phonetic component	支
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

岐

1. used in 岐山 (Qíshān)
2. alternative form of 歧 (qí)
3. Used in compounds.
4. a surname

Compounds

• 千岐萬轍 / 千岐万辙
• 卓岐 (Zhuóqí)
• 岐伯 (Qíbó)
• 岐周
• 岐婆
• 岐山 (Qíshān)
• 岐岐
• 岐嶷
• 岐路 (qílù)
• 岐頭 / 岐头 (Qítóu)
• 岐黃 / 岐黄 (Qíhuáng)
• 石岐 (Shíqí)
• 走岐路
• 路岐
• 路岐人
• 黃岐 / 黄岐 (Huángqí)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see 歧 (“forked road; fork; divide; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 歧).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “岐”, 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–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “岐”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 160.
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “岐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 181.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 岐

岐

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. branch off
2. fork in the road

Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: えだみち (edamichi)、ちまた (chimata, 岐)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
岐
ちまた Grade: 4
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see the following entry.

【ちまた】 [noun] fork in the road [noun] alley [noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議／街谈巷议) Alternative spellings 巷, 衢

(This term, 岐, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^△岐”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

岐 (eum 기 (gi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

岐: Hán Nôm readings: kì

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