膾

See also: 脍

膾 U+81BE, 膾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-81BE ← 膽 [U+81BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 膿 → [U+81BF]

Translingual

Han character

膾 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月人一日 (BOMA), four-corner 7826₆, composition ⿰月會)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 996, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29937
• Dae Jaweon: page 1447, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2117, character 5
• Unihan data for U+81BE

Chinese

trad.		膾
simp.		脍
alternative forms		鱠／鲙 especially fish 䭝

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 膾 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Kuai (dish) (English)

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
譮	*qʰruːbs
會	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
儈	*koːbs
膾	*koːbs
鱠	*koːbs
襘	*koːbs
禬	*koːbs, *ɡoːbs
檜	*koːbs, *koːd
旝	*koːbs
澮	*koːbs
鄶	*koːbs
廥	*koːbs
鬠	*koːbs, *ɡoːd
劊	*koːbs, *koːd
獪	*koːbs, *kroːbs
繪	*ɡoːbs
懀	*qoːbs, *qroːbs, *qroːbs
薈	*qoːbs
嬒	*qoːbs, *qoːd
瞺	*qoːbs
噲	*kʰroːbs
璯	*kʰroːbs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuài (kuai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kui²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kòe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuài
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuài
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuai⁴
    • Yale: kwài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
    • Palladius: куай (kuaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kui²
    • Yale: kúi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kui²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kui²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːi̯³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòe
    • Tâi-lô: kuè
    • Phofsit Daibuun: koex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kue²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kue⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kue²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kue¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kue²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kwajH

Rime
Character	膾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古外切
Baxter	kwajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwajH/
Li Rong	/kuɑiH/
Wang Li	/kuɑiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gui3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[k]ˤ[o][p]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːbs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	膾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuài
Middle Chinese	‹ kwajH ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[k]ˁ[o][p]-s/
English	mince (v.)
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	膾
Reading #	1/1
No.	5495
Phonetic component	會
Rime group	蓋
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	儈
Old Chinese	/*koːbs/

Definitions

膾

1. (historical) kuai, a historical Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw fish or meat

   See also: 軒

2. (archaic) to mince; to chop

Compounds

• 斫鱠 / 斫鲙
• 膾炙 / 脍炙 (kuàizhì)
• 膾炙人口 / 脍炙人口 (kuàizhìrénkǒu)
• 蓴羹鱸膾 / 莼羹鲈脍
• 雜膾 / 杂脍
• 鮮膾 / 鲜脍
• 鱸膾 / 鲈脍 (lúkuài)

See also

• 鱠／鲙 (kuài)