拮

拮	U+62EE, 拮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62EE

← 拭
[U+62ED]

CJK Unified Ideographs

拯 →
[U+62EF]

Translingual

Han character

拮 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手土口 (QGR), four-corner 5406₁, composition ⿰扌吉)

laboring hard, occupied
pursue

References

KangXi: page 427, character 21

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11990

Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 18

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1866, character 3

Unihan data for U+62EE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		拮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
秸	kriːl, kriːd
髻	*kiːds
夡	*kʰids
鴶	*kriːd
袺	kriːd, kiːd
頡	kriːd, ɡiːd
劼	*kʰriːd
硈	*kʰriːd
咭	kʰriːd, ɡlid, *qʰlid
黠	*ɡriːd
聐	*ŋreːd
趌	ked, klid, kʰid, ɡrid
結	*kiːd
拮	kiːd, klid
桔	*kiːd
狤	kiːd, klid, *ɡrid
擷	qʰiːd, ɡiːd
襭	*ɡiːd
翓	*ɡiːd
纈	*ɡiːd
吉	*klid
郆	*kid
詰	*kʰid
蛣	*kʰid
佶	ɡlid, ɡrid
鮚	*ɡrid
姞	*ɡrid
欯	*qʰlid
恄	*qʰlid

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jié (jie²)
(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gat¹, git³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jié
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jié
  - Wade–Giles: chieh²
  - Yale: jyé
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
  - Palladius: цзе (cze)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕjɛ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gat¹, git³
  - Yale: gāt, git
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gat⁷, git⁸
  - Guangdong Romanization: ged¹, gid³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐt̚⁵/, /kiːt̚³/

Middle Chinese: /kiɪt̚/, /ket̚/

Rime
Character	拮	拮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	眞 (48)	先 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	居質切	古屑切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪt̚/	/ket̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kit̚/	/ket̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kjet̚/	/kɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kit̚/	/kɛt̚/
Li Rong	/kiĕt̚/	/ket̚/
Wang Li	/kĭĕt̚/	/kiet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ĕt̚/	/kiet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ji	jie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gat¹	git³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤi[t]/
(Zhengzhang): /*kiːd/, /*klid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	拮
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jié
Middle Chinese	‹ ket ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁi[t]/
English	grasp (v.)
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	拮	拮
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5682	5695
Phonetic component	吉	吉
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	結	吉
Old Chinese	/*kiːd/	/*klid/

Definitions

拮

Used in 拮据 (jiéjū).

Compounds

拮抗 (jiékàng)

拮花

拮据 (jiéjū)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 揭 (“to raise; to lift up; to uncover; to unveil; to expose; to reveal; etc.”). (This character, 拮, is a variant form of 揭.)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 戛 (“lance; tap or strike lightly”). (This character, 拮, is a variant form of 戛.)

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 㓤 (“(Cantonese) to pierce; to prick; etc.”). (This character, 拮, is a variant form of 㓤.)

References

“拮”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學／香港中文大学 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

拮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: きち (kichi); けち (kechi)
Kan-on: きつ (kitsu); けつ (ketsu)
Kun: はたらく (hataraku, 拮く)

Korean

Hanja

拮 • (gil, gyeol) (hangeul 길, 결, revised gil, gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kil, kyŏl, Yale kil, kyel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拮: Hán Nôm readings: cất, cắt, gặt, gật, kiết, két, kít

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