玦

玦

玦 U+73A6, 玦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73A6 ← 玥 [U+73A5] CJK Unified Ideographs 玧 → [U+73A7]

Translingual

Han character

玦 (radical 96, 玉+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 一土木大 (MGDK), four-corner 1513₀, composition ⿰𤣩夬)

1. penannular jade ring
2. thimble

References

• KangXi: page 728, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20869
• Dae Jaweon: page 1140, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1105, character 5
• Unihan data for U+73A6

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		玦

玉玦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
袂	*mɡʷeds
夬	*kʷraːds
快	*kʰʷraːds
駃	*kʰʷraːds, *kʷeːd
筷	*kʰʷraːds
炔	*kʷeːds
觖	*kʰʷeds, *kʷeːd
缺	*kʰʷed, *kʰʷeːd
蒛	*kʰʷed
吷	*qʰʷed
妜	*qʷed, *qʷeːd
決	*kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
訣	*kʷeːd
抉	*kʷeːd, *qʷeːd
玦	*kʷeːd
芵	*kʷeːd
赽	*kʷeːd
鴂	*kʷeːd
鈌	*kʷeːd
决	*kʷeːd
疦	*kʷeːd, *qʰʷeːd
蚗	*kʷeːd
趹	*kʷeːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jué (jue²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: jué
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyue
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕɥ̯œ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³
    • Yale: kyut
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /kwet̚/▼

Rime
Character	玦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	屑 (88)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	古穴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwet̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷet̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛt̚/
Li Rong	/kuet̚/
Wang Li	/kiwet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	玦
Reading #	1/1
No.	4420
Phonetic component	夬
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	玦
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːd/

Definitions

玦

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Compounds

玉玦

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02601

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Japanese

Kanji

玦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. broken piece of jade

Readings

• On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu), けち (kechi)

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Korean

Hanja

玦 • (gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)

1. jade ring