誡

See also: 诫

誡 U+8AA1, 誡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8AA1 ← 誠 [U+8AA0] CJK Unified Ideographs 誢 → [U+8AA2]

Translingual

Han character

誡 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜口戈廿 (YRIT), four-corner 0365₀, composition ⿰訁戒)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1163, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35538
• Dae Jaweon: page 1628, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3973, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8AA1

Chinese

trad.		誡
simp.		诫
2nd round simp.		戒
alternative forms		戒 ancient

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
祴	*kɯː
駴	*ɡrɯːʔ
戒	*krɯːɡs
誡	*krɯːɡs
悈	*krɯːɡs, *kɯɡ
械	*ɡrɯːɡs
裓	*kɯːɡ

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *krɯːɡs): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 戒 (OC *krɯːɡs, “guard against”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiè (jie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): kie

  (Hailu, HRS): gai^ˇ

• Eastern Min (BUC): gái
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gai⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): kài

  (Teochew, Peng'im): gai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiè
    • Wade–Giles: chieh⁴
    • Yale: jyè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jieh
    • Palladius: цзе (cze)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gaai³
    • Yale: gaai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: gai³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːi̯³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: kie
    • Hakka Romanization System: gie
    • Hagfa Pinyim: gie⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ki̯e⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: gai^ˇ
    • Sinological IPA: /kai¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gái
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑi²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: gai⁴
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ga̍i
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kai⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kài
    • Tâi-lô: kài
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kaix
    • IPA (Xiamen): /kai²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kai⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kai²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /kai¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /kai²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: gai³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kài
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kai²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: keajH

Rime
Character	誡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古拜切
Baxter	keajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛiH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kɐiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəɨjH/
Li Rong	/kɛiH/
Wang Li	/kɐiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kăiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤrək-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	誡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiè
Middle Chinese	‹ keajH ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁrək-s/
English	warn
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	誡
Reading #	1/1
No.	6545
Phonetic component	戒
Rime group	代
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	誡
Old Chinese	/*krɯːɡs/

Definitions

誡

1. to warn; to admonish; to caution
2. to take precautions; to guard against
3. (religion) commandments; precepts; tenets

Compounds

• 勸誡 / 劝诫 (quànjiè)
• 十誡 / 十诫 (shíjiè)
• 告誡 / 告诫 (gàojiè)
• 告誡書 / 告诫书
• 女誡 / 女诫
• 小懲大誡 / 小惩大诫
• 炯誡 / 炯诫
• 狐丘之誡 / 狐丘之诫
• 申誡 / 申诫
• 訓誡 / 训诫 (xùnjiè)
• 誥誡 / 诰诫 (gàojiè)

References

• “誡”, 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), “诫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 110.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 誡

誡

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. admonish
2. warn
3. prohibit

Readings

• On (unclassified): かい (kai)
• Kun: いましめる (imashimeru)

Korean

Hanja

誡 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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