隗

隗

隗 U+9697, 隗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9697 ← 隖 [U+9696] CJK Unified Ideographs 隘 → [U+9698]

Translingual

Han character

隗 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹山戈 (NLHUI), four-corner 7621₃, composition ⿰⻖鬼)

References

• KangXi: page 1358, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41788
• Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4147, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9697

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Chinese

trad.		隗
simp. #		隗

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
謉	*tkuːlʔ, *krul
瑰	*kuːl, *ɡuːl
傀	*kuːl, *kʰuːlʔ
藱	*kuːl
魁	*kʰuːl
磈	*kʰuːlʔ, *qulʔ
塊	*kʰuːls, *kʰruːds
嵬	*ŋɡuːl, *ŋɡuːlʔ
隗	*ŋɡuːlʔ
槐	*ɡuːl, *ɡruːl
瘣	*ɡuːlʔ
廆	*ɡuːlʔ
溾	*ɡuːlʔ, *qruːl
螝	*ɡuːls, *krul
褢	*ɡruːl
騩	*krul, *kruls, *kul
愧	*kruls
媿	*kruls
聭	*kruls
餽	*ɡruls
鬼	*kulʔ
魏	*ŋɡuls
巍	*ŋul
犩	*ŋul, *ŋuls

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋɡuːlʔ) : semantic 阝 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěi (wei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁵, ngai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wěi
    • Wade–Giles: wei³
    • Yale: wěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woei
    • Palladius: вэй (vɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngai⁵, ngai⁴
    • Yale: ngáih, ngàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁵, ngai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁵, ngei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯¹³/, /ŋɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋuʌi^X/

Rime
Character	隗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五罪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋuʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋuoiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋuɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋwəjX/
Li Rong	/ŋuᴀiX/
Wang Li	/ŋuɒiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋuɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngoi5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡuːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	隗
Reading #	1/1
No.	4668
Phonetic component	鬼
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	頠
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡuːlʔ/

Definitions

隗

1. ^† high; lofty

   杳隗  ―  yǎowěi  ―  high and steep

2. ^† to collapse; to fall
3. a surname

Etymology 2

Wang Guowei (1923) (apud Khayutina, 2016) connects this surname, also written as 媿／愧 (kuí), to the ethnonym 鬼方 (Guǐfāng).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Kuí (Kui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Kuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Kuéi
    • Wade–Giles: Kʻuei²
    • Yale: Kwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Kwei
    • Palladius: Куй (Kuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰweɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwai⁴
    • Yale: kwàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/

Definitions

隗

1. a surname

   • 潞、洛、泉、徐、蒲，皆赤狄，隗姓也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 韋昭 Wei Zhao,《國語注》Commentaries on Discourses of the States, Ch. 16

     Lù, Luò, Quán, Xú, Pú, jiē Chìdí, Kuí xìng yě. [Pinyin]

     Lu, Luo, Quan, Xu, and Pu were all Red Di, surnamed Kui.

Compounds

先從隗始／先从隗始

請自隗始／请自隗始

Further reading

• Khayutina, Maria. (2016). "The Tombs of the Rulers of Peng and Relationships between Zhou and Northern Non-Zhou Lineages (Until the Early Ninth Century B.C.)" in Shaughnessy, Edward L. (ed.) Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscriptions from Ancient China Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. pp. 71-132

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Japanese

Kanji

隗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. high
2. steep

Readings

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: がい (gai)
• Kan’yō-on: かい (kai)
• Kun: けわしい (kewashii, 隗しい); たかい (takai)

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Korean

Hanja

隗 • (a) (hangeul 아)

1. high
2. lofty