闈

See also: 闱

闈 U+95C8, 闈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95C8 ← 闇 [U+95C7] CJK Unified Ideographs 闉 → [U+95C9]

Translingual

Han character

闈 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木一手 (ANDMQ), four-corner 7750₆, composition ⿵門韋)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1338, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41425
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4310, character 5
• Unihan data for U+95C8

Chinese

trad.		闈
simp.		闱

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闈
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
禕	*qral
郼	*qʷɯl
褘	*qʰʷɯl
諱	*qʰʷɯls
媁	*qʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
幃	*ɢʷɯl
違	*ɢʷɯl
圍	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯls
韋	*ɢʷɯl
闈	*ɢʷɯl
湋	*ɢʷɯl
鍏	*ɢʷɯl, *ɢʷɯlʔ
潿	*ɢɯl
韙	*ɢʷɯlʔ
煒	*ɢʷɯlʔ
暐	*ɢʷɯlʔ
偉	*ɢʷɯlʔ
瑋	*ɢʷɯlʔ
葦	*ɢʷɯlʔ
椲	*ɢʷɯlʔ
韡	*ɢʷɯlʔ
愇	*ɢʷɯlʔ
緯	*ɢʷɯls

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wéi (wei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁴
• Eastern Min (BUC): ùi
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ui²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ûi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wéi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wéi
    • Wade–Giles: wei²
    • Yale: wéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wai⁴
    • Yale: wàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ùi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ui⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ui²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: úi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ui¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ui²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ui²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ûi
    • Tâi-lô: uî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: uii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ui²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui²³/

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• Middle Chinese: hjw+j

Rime
Character	闈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	微 (21)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	雨非切
Baxter	hjw+j
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉi/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨi/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuəi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦuj/
Li Rong	/ɣiuəi/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwəi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/we̯i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wéi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷɯl/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	闈
Reading #	1/1
No.	12818
Phonetic component	韋
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	幃
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷɯl/

Definitions

闈

1. side door of the palace
2. imperial concubines' residence
3. one's parents' bedroom
4. women's quarters
5. (historical) imperial examination hall or room

Compounds

• 中闈 / 中闱
• 入闈 / 入闱 (rùwéi)
• 出闈 / 出闱
• 北闈 / 北闱
• 南闈 / 南闱
• 國家闈場 / 国家闱场
• 壼闈 / 壸闱
• 天倫庭闈 / 天伦庭闱
• 宮闈 / 宫闱 (gōngwéi)
• 庭闈 / 庭闱
• 彤闈 / 彤闱
• 房闈 / 房闱
• 春闈 / 春闱
• 棘闈 / 棘闱
• 瑣闈 / 琐闱
• 禮闈 / 礼闱
• 秋闈 / 秋闱
• 衡闈 / 衡闱
• 重闈 / 重闱
• 閨闈 / 闺闱
• 閫闈 / 阃闱
• 闈場 / 闱场
• 闈墨 / 闱墨

References

• “闈”, 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), “闱”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 243.

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 闈

闈

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. gate, door
2. living quarters

Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)、き (ki)

Korean

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɥi] ~ [y]
• Phonetic hangul: [위]

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

闈

闈 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune–Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

1. gate
2. royal palace
3. inner room