祺

祺

祺 U+797A, 祺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-797A ← 祹 [U+7979] CJK Unified Ideographs 祻 → [U+797B]

Translingual

Han character

祺 (radical 113, 示+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 戈火廿一金 (IFTMC), four-corner 3428₁, composition ⿰礻其)

1. good luck, good fortune, auspicious
2. peaceful, serene

References

• KangXi: page 843, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24733
• Dae Jaweon: page 1264, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2401, character 24
• Unihan data for U+797A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		祺

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 祺
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
期	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅	*kɯ, *ɡɯs
其	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆	*kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	*ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): kî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ki⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: ch'ih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ki⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khî
    • IPA ^(key): /kʰi⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡɨ/▼

Rime
Character	祺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɡĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	祺	祺
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9952	9964
Phonetic component	其	其
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	其	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/	/*ɡɯ/

Definitions

祺

1. auspicious; propitious
2. good luck; felicity
3. euphoria

Compounds

祺祥

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Japanese

Kanji

祺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kun: さいわい (saiwai, 祺い)

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Korean

Hanja

祺 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

祺 (kì)

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