枅

枅 U+6785, 枅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6785 ← 构 [U+6784] CJK Unified Ideographs 枆 → [U+6786]

枅 U+2F8E0, 枅 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8E0 ← 柺 [U+2F8DF] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 桒 → [U+2F8E1]

Translingual

Han character

枅 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一廿 (DMT), four-corner 4194₀, composition ⿰木开)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14525
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1164, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6785

• Unihan data for U+2F8E0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		枅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
笄	*kŋeː
枅	*kŋeː
蚈	*kŋeː, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
羿	*ŋeːs
栞	*ŋ̊ʰaːn
雃	*ŋaːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
詽	*ŋreːn, *tŋ̊ʰeːn
揅	*ŋeːn
幵	*kŋeːn
鳽	*kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣	*kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉	*kŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
趼	*kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧	*ŋ̊ʰeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːns
岍	*ŋ̊ʰeːn
研	*ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍	*ŋeːn
訮	*hŋeːn
鈃	*ɡeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kŋeː) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jī (ji¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ji
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹
    • Yale: jī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
    • Palladius: цзи (czi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gai¹
    • Yale: gāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐi̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kej

Rime
Character	枅
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古奚切
Baxter	kej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kei/
Pan Wuyun	/kei/
Shao Rongfen	/kɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɛj/
Li Rong	/kei/
Wang Li	/kiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gai1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤer/, /*[k]ˤer/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kŋeː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	枅	枅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī	jiān
Middle Chinese	‹ kej ›	‹ ken ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁer/ (dialect: *-r > *-j)	/*[k]ˁer/ (W dialect)
English	crosspiece of wood on top of	crosspiece of wood on top of
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	枅
Reading #	1/1
No.	6153
Phonetic component	幵
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	雞
Old Chinese	/*kŋeː/

Definitions

枅

1. square timber pillars used as supporting beams in traditional wooden Chinese building or construction

Japanese

Kanji

枅

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei)
• Kun: とがた (togata)、ひじき (hijiki)