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U+8B70, 議
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B70

[U+8B6F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8B71]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 149, +13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 卜口廿土戈 (YRTGI), four-corner 08653, composition )

Derived characters

  • 𡅷

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1183, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36027
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1647, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4026, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8B70

Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 議, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋrals): semantic (talk) + phonetic (OC *ŋrals).

Etymology

Cognate with (OC *ŋral, “ceremony; appearance”). See there for more.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • gi5 - literary, limited (e.g. 議論);
  • gi3 - new reading, common.

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Definitions

  1. to talk over; to discuss
    今天我們一下軍情 [MSC, trad.]
    今天我们一下军情 [MSC, simp.]
    Jīntiān wǒmen jiù yīxià jūnqíng. [Pinyin]
    Today we will discuss the military situation.
  2. (literary, or in compounds) to comment
  3. (literary, or in compounds) to criticize; to critique
  4. (literary, or in compounds) opinion; suggestion
  5. (literary, or in compounds) parliament; legislative assembly

Synonyms

  • (to talk over):

Compounds

References

  • ”, 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), “”, 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.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. deliberation
  2. consultation
  3. debate
  4. consideration

Readings

  • Go-on: (gi, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: (gi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: はかる (hakaru, 議る)
  • Nanori: かた (kata)のり (nori)はかる (hakaru)

Compounds

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

Noun

() (gi) 

  1. discussion; deliberation; debate

Suffix

() (-gi) 

  1. clipping of 議会議員 (gikai giin, legislature member)
    ()/(どう)/()/(けん)/()/(ちょう)/(そん)()
    to/dō/fu/ken/shi/chō/songi
    a member of the Tokyo/Hokkaido/Osaka/Kyoto/prefecture/city/town/village assembly

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

(はかる) (Hakaru) 

  1. a male given name

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun 의논할 (uinonhal ui))

  1. hanja form? of (discuss)

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: nghị, nghĩ, ngợi

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