喹

喹

喹 U+55B9, 喹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55B9 ← 喸 [U+55B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 喺 → [U+55BA]

Translingual

Han character

喹 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口大土土 (RKGG), four-corner 6401, composition ⿰口奎)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 652, character 7
• Unihan data for U+55B9

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		喹

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuí (kui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fui¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuéi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuei²
    • Yale: kwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kwei
    • Palladius: куй (kuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰweɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fui¹
    • Yale: fūi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fui¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fui¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuːi̯⁵⁵/

Definitions

喹

1. Used in transcription.

Compounds

喹唑啉 (kuízuòlín) 喹啉 (kuílín)

喹喔啉 (kuí'ōlín) 氯喹 (lǜkuí)

羥氯喹／羟氯喹 (qiǎnglǜkuí)