聵

聵

See also: 聩

聵 U+8075, 聵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8075 ← 聴 [U+8074] CJK Unified Ideographs 聶 → [U+8076]

Translingual

Han character

聵 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中一金 (SJLMC), four-corner 6518₆, composition ⿰耳貴)

References

• KangXi: page 969, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29175
• Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 6
• Unihan data for U+8075

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Chinese

trad.		聵
simp.		聩

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
藬	*l'uːl
僓	*l̥ʰuːlʔ, *ɡluːds
頹	*l'uːl
穨	*l'uːl
蘈	*l'uːl
隤	*l'uːl
墤	*l'uːl, *kʰruːds
尵	*l'uːl, *r'uːl
蹪	*l'uːl
瀢	*l'uːlʔ, *lulʔ
鞼	*kluːl, *ɡruls
膭	*kluːl, *ɡluːls
憒	*kluːds
靧	*ɡluːds
潰	*ɡluːls
繢	*ɡluːds
嬇	*ɡluːds, *kʰruːds
殨	*ɡluːds
闠	*ɡluːds
簣	*kʰruːds, *ɡruds
嘳	*kʰruːds, *kʰruds
蕢	*kʰruːds, *ɡruds
聵	*ŋɡruːds
樻	*kʰruds, *ɡruds
䙡	*kʰruds, *kʰluds
匱	*ɡruds
臾	*ɡruds, *lo
饋	*ɡruls
櫃	*ɡruds
遺	*lul, *luls
壝	*lul, *lulʔ
瞶	*luls, *kluls
貴	*kluds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋɡruːds) : semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 貴 (OC *kluds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuì (kui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kui², wui⁶, ngoi⁶, kui³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuì
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuèi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuei⁴
    • Yale: kwèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuey
    • Palladius: куй (kuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰweɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kui², wui⁶, ngoi⁶, kui³
    • Yale: kúi, wuih, ngoih, kui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kui², wui⁶, ngoi⁶, kui³
    • Guangdong Romanization: kui², wui⁶, ngoi⁶, kui³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːi̯³⁵/, /wuːi̯²²/, /ŋɔːi̯²²/, /kʰuːi̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋˠuɛi^H/

Rime
Character	聵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	皆 (34)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	五怪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠuɛiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷᵚæiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋuɐiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋwəɨjH/
Li Rong	/ŋuɛiH/
Wang Li	/ŋwɐiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋwăiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngaai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤruj-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡruːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	聵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngwɛjH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁruj-s/
English	deaf
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	聵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4729
Phonetic component	貴
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	聵
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡruːds/

Definitions

聵

1. (literary) deaf
2. (literary) muddleheaded

Compounds

振聾發聵／振聋发聩 (zhènlóngfākuì) 昏聵／昏聩 (hūnkuì) 發矇振聵／发蒙振聩

發聾振聵／发聋振聩 眊聵／眊聩

矇聵／蒙聩 聾聵／聋聩 (lóngkuì)

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

聵

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. deaf

Readings

• On (unclassified): がい (gai), げ (ge), かい (kai)
• Kun: つんぼ (tsumbo)

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Korean

Hanja

聵 • (oe) (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune–Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

1. deaf