颽

颽

颽 U+98BD, 颽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98BD ← 颼 [U+98BC] CJK Unified Ideographs 颾 → [U+98BE]

Translingual

Han character

颽 (Kangxi radical 182, 風+10, 19 strokes, cangjie input 山廿竹弓戈 (UTHNI), four-corner 2711₀, composition ⿰豈風)

References

• KangXi: page 1414, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 43923
• Dae Jaweon: page 1936, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4490, character 1
• Unihan data for U+98BD

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Chinese

trad.		颽
simp.		𬱼
alternative forms		𩘥

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
獃	*tŋɯː, *ŋɯː
剴	*kŋɯːl, *ŋɯːl
凱	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
愷	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
塏	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
鎧	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls
颽	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
暟	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ
闓	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯːls
豈	*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ
隑	*ɡɯːls, *ŋɯːl
皚	*ŋɯːl
嵦	*ŋɡɯːl
敳	*ŋɯːl
磑	*ŋɯːl, *ŋuːl, *ŋuːls
螘	*ŋralʔ, *ŋɯlʔ
覬	*krɯls
溰	*ŋɯl
顗	*ŋɯlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ) : phonetic 豈 (OC *ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ, *ŋ̊ʰɯlʔ) + semantic 風 (“wind”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kǎi (kai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hoi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kǎi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻai³
    • Yale: kǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kae
    • Palladius: кай (kaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰaɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hoi²
    • Yale: hói
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hoi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: hoi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːi̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /kʰʌi^X/

Rime
Character	颽
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	苦亥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰəiX/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰəjX/
Li Rong	/kʰᴀiX/
Wang Li	/kʰɒiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kǎi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	颽
Reading #	1/1
No.	10106
Phonetic component	豈
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	愷
Old Chinese	/*ŋ̊ʰɯːlʔ/
Notes	爾雅凱異文

Definitions

颽

1. Only used in 颽風／𬱼风, Alternative form of 凱風／凯风 (kǎifēng, “south wind”).

References

• “颽”, 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–