拮据

拮据

Chinese

simp. and trad. (拮据)		拮	据

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiéjū

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄐㄩ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): git³ geoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jiéjū
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄐㄩ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyejiu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: git³ geoi¹
    • Yale: git gēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: git⁸ goey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gid³ gêu¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kiːt̚³ kɵy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kiɪt̚|ket̚  kɨʌ/▼

Rime
Character	拮	拮	据
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	屑 (87)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV	III
Fanqie	居質切	古屑切	九魚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪt̚/	/ket̚/	/kɨʌ/
Pan Wuyun	/kit̚/	/ket̚/	/kiɔ/
Shao Rongfen	/kjet̚/	/kɛt̚/	/kiɔ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kit̚/	/kɛt̚/	/kɨə̆/
Li Rong	/kiĕt̚/	/ket̚/	/kiɔ/
Wang Li	/kĭĕt̚/	/kiet̚/	/kĭo/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ĕt̚/	/kiet̚/	/ki̯wo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ji	jie	jū

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kiːd|klid  ka/

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	据
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
No.	5682	5695	4265
Phonetic component	吉	吉	古
Rime group	質	質	魚
Rime subdivision	1	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	結	吉	居
Old Chinese	/*kiːd/	/*klid/	/*ka/

Adjective

拮据

1. short of money; in straitened circumstances

   手頭拮据 / 手头拮据  ―  shǒutóu jiéjū  ―  to feel the pinch

2. (literary) diligent

Derived terms

手頭拮据／手头拮据

經濟拮据／经济拮据 (jīngjì jiéjū)

Adverb

拮据

1. (literary) diligently