郤

郤 U+90E4, 郤 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90E4 ← 郣 [U+90E3] CJK Unified Ideographs 郥 → [U+90E5]

Translingual

Han character

郤 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金口弓中 (CRNL), four-corner 8762₇, composition ⿰谷阝)

Derived characters

• 𦃛, 𪼾

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1272, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39440
• Dae Jaweon: page 1771, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3774, character 10
• Unihan data for U+90E4

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
腳	*kaɡ
脚	*kaɡ
卻	*kaɡ, *kʰaɡ
却	*kʰaɡ
谻	*kraɡ, *kraɡ
郤	*kʰraɡ
綌	*kʰraɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰraɡ): phonetic 𧮫 (jué) + semantic 邑 (“city”).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		郤

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik¹ / kwik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwik¹ / kwik¹
    • Yale: gwīk / kwīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwik⁷ / kwik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: guig¹ / kuig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪk̚⁵/, /kʷʰɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khjaek

Rime
Character	郤
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	陌 (115)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綺戟切
Baxter	khjaek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰiajk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰiɐk̚/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɐk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰiɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰraɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	郤
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xì
Middle Chinese	‹ khjæk ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʰrak/
English	(place and family name)
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	郤
Reading #	1/1
No.	10743
Phonetic component	郤
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	隙
Old Chinese	/*kʰraɡ/

Definitions

郤

1. (historical) Xi, a city around the lower reaches of present-day Qin River, Shanxi
2. alternative form of 隙 (xì, “crack; gap”)
3. a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 郤 – see 卻 (“to withdraw; to retreat; to drive back; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 卻).

Japanese

Kanji

郤

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: けき (keki)
• Kan’yō-on: げき (geki)
• Kun: あおぐ (aogu)、ひま (hima)

Korean

Hanja

郤 • (geuk) (hangeul 극, revised geuk, McCune–Reischauer kŭk, Yale kuk)

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