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彗

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See also: 篲
彗 U+5F57, 彗
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F57
← 彖
[U+5F56] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彘 →
[U+5F58]

Translingual

Han character

彗 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手十尸一 (QJSM), four-corner 55174, composition ⿱⿰丰丰𫜹 or ⿱⿰丰丰⺕)

Derived terms

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9927
  • Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 961, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5F57
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Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 彗, Shang ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (彗) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 甡 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – to hold a broom which is made of bamboo.

Etymology 1

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Sagart (2021) modifies Baxter and Sagart's (2014) reconstruction to *sə-m-pʰˤut-s, deriving it from a root *pʰˤut (“dust”), with the iambic form of the prefix *s-, which derives circumstantial nouns, and the prefix *m-, which derives verbs of volitional action from nouns, and relates it to 勃 (OC *bɯːd) and 孛 (OC *bɯːds, *bɯːd).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

彗

  1. (literary) broom
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) comet
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to sweep; to brush
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 彗星 (“comet”) [map]
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Compounds

  • 周期彗星
  • 哈雷彗星 (Hāléi huìxīng)
  • 彗尾
  • 彗星 (huìxīng)
  • 彗氾畫塗 / 彗氾画涂
  • 擁彗先驅 / 拥彗先驱
  • 擁彗迎門 / 拥彗迎门
  • 畢拉彗星 / 毕拉彗星
  • 百武彗星

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

彗

  1. alternative form of 熭 (wèi)

Compounds

  • 日中必彗

References

  • “彗”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “彗”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 96.
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Japanese

Kanji

彗

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. comet
  2. broom
    Synonym: 篲
  3. to sweep

Readings

From Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zwijH); compare Mandarin 彗 (suì, huì):

  • Go-on: ずい (zui)←ずい (zui, historical)
  • Kan-on: すい (sui)←すい (sui, historical)

From Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zjwejH):

From native Japanese roots:

Compounds

  • 彗(すい)星(せい) (suisei): comet
  • 彗(すい)掃(そう) (suisō)
  • 彗(すい)孛(はい) (suihai)
  • 王(おう)彗(すい) (ōsui)
  • 孛(はい)彗(すい) (haisui)
  • 擁(よう)彗(すい) (yōsui)
  • 妖(よう)彗(すい) (yōsui)

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading, by analogy with 慧. The original readings are 수 (su) and 세 (se) based on Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zwijH|zjwejH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [çe̞(ː)] ~ [he̞(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [혜(ː)/헤(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

彗 (eumhun 살별 혜 (salbyeol hye))

  1. hanja form? of 혜 (“comet”)

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

彗: Hán Nôm readings: tuệ

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