畿

畿 U+757F, 畿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-757F ← 畾 [U+757E] CJK Unified Ideographs 疀 → [U+7580]

Translingual

Han character

畿 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女戈田 (VIW), four-corner 2265₃, composition ⿹㇯幾人田)

Derived characters

• 𰋀, 㼄, 𦢍

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 766, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21925
• Dae Jaweon: page 1176, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2551, character 9
• Unihan data for U+757F

Chinese

simp. and trad.		畿
alternative forms		㙨 𤳀 𰋀

Chinese Wikipedia has an article on:

畿

Wikipedia ^zh

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
機	*kɯl
譏	*kɯl
嘰	*kɯl
磯	*kɯl
鞿	*kɯl
饑	*kɯl
禨	*kɯl, *kɯls
幾	*kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls
鐖	*kɯl
僟	*kɯl
璣	*kɯl
蟣	*kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl
穖	*kɯlʔ
畿	*ɡɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡɯl): semantic 田 + abbreviated phonetic 幾 (OC *kɯl, *kɯlʔ, *ɡɯl, *ɡɯls).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ / kei⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): gĭ
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): ki / kî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gi¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ji

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ji
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gei¹ / kei⁴
    • Yale: gēi / kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ / kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ / kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/, /kʰei̯²¹/

Note: kei4 - variant.

• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ki / kî
    • Tâi-lô: ki / kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ky, kii
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁴⁴/, /ki²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ki³³/, /ki²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁴⁴/, /ki¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /ki⁴⁴/, /ki²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴⁴/, /ki²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gi¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ki
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ji
    • MiniDict: ji^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jji
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gj+j

Rime
Character	畿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	微 (20)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠希切
Baxter	gj+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨi/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨj/
Li Rong	/ɡiəi/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ge̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ə[r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	畿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī
Middle Chinese	‹ gjɨj ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ə[r]/ (dialect: *-r > *-j?)
English	royal domain
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	畿
Reading #	1/1
No.	5803
Phonetic component	幾
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	祈
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯl/

Definitions

畿

1. imperial domain; area near the capital

Compounds

• 京畿 (jīngjī)
• 京畿令
• 封畿
• 王畿 (wángjī)
• 畿甸 (jīdiàn)
• 畿縣 / 畿县
• 畿輔 / 畿辅 (jīfǔ)
• 畿輦 / 畿辇
• 近畿 (jìnjī)
• 邦畿 (bāngjī)

References

• “畿”, 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

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 畿

畿

(Jōyō kanji)

1. capital, suburbs of capital

Readings

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: みやこ (miyako, 畿)

Compounds

• 近畿(きんき) (kinki): Kinki region

References

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

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 畿 (MC gj+j). Recorded as Middle Korean 긔 (kuy) (Yale: kuy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

畿

畿 (eumhun 경기 기 (gyeonggi gi))

1. hanja form^? of 기 (“area near the capital”)

Compounds

• 경기 (京畿, Gyeonggi)
• 근기 (近畿, geun'gi)
• 방기 (邦畿, banggi)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

畿: Hán Việt readings: kì, kỳ
畿: Nôm readings: kì, kỳ

1. imperial domain; area near the capital

Compounds

• Bang kì (邦畿)
• Kinh kì (京畿)
• Kì phụ (畿輔)