馗

馗

馗 U+9997, 馗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9997 ← 首 [U+9996] CJK Unified Ideographs 馘 → [U+9998]

Translingual

Han character

馗 (radical 185, 首+2, 11 strokes, cangjie input 大弓廿竹山 (KNTHU), four-corner 4801₆, composition ⿺九首)

1. cheekbone
2. path, road
3. intersection

References

• KangXi: page 1428, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44492
• Dae Jaweon: page 1954, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4501, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9997

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		馗
variant forms		𠃳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 馗
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (九) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
尻	*kʰuː
訄	*kʰuː, *kʰu, *ɡu
艽	*krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw, *ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
虓	*qʰruː
鳩	*ku
勼	*ku
九	*kuʔ
究	*kus
仇	*ɡu
鼽	*ɡu
犰	*ɡu
叴	*ɡu
厹	*ɡu
頄	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
朹	*ɡu, *kʷrɯwʔ
馗	*ɡu, *ɡʷrɯw
扏	*ɡu
訅	*ɡu
釚	*ɡu
肍	*ɡu
軌	*kʷrɯwʔ
宄	*kʷrɯwʔ
氿	*kʷrɯwʔ
匭	*kʷrɯwʔ
泦	*kuɡ
旭	*qʰʷoɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuí (kui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: kuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˊ
    • Wade–Giles: k'uei²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kwei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuéi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰweɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwai⁴
    • Yale: kwàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kuei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɡˠiuɪ/, /ɡɨu/▼

Rime
Character	馗	馗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	渠追切	巨鳩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiuɪ/	/ɡɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡʷᵚi/	/ɡiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiuɪ/	/ɡiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjwi/	/guw/
Li Rong	/ɡjui/	/ɡiu/
Wang Li	/ɡwi/	/ɡĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/gwi/	/gi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuí	qiú

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ʷru/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡu/, /*ɡʷrɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	馗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuí
Middle Chinese	‹ gwij ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ʷru/
English	thoroughfare
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	馗	馗
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6952	6963
Phonetic component	九	九
Rime group	幽	幽
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	𧚍	逵
Old Chinese	/*ɡu/	/*ɡʷrɯw/
Notes		集韻改渠龜切

Definitions

馗

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Compounds

氣殺鍾馗／气杀钟馗

鍾馗／钟馗

鍾馗嫁妹／钟馗嫁妹

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Japanese

Kanji

馗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. road

Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi); ぐ (gu)
• Kan-on: き (ki); きゅう (kyū)
• Kun: ほおぼね (hoobone), みち (michi), かくれる (kakureru)

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Korean

Hanja

馗 • (gyu) (hangeul 규, revised gyu, McCune–Reischauer kyu, Yale kyu)

1. cheekbone
2. path, road
3. intersection

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Vietnamese

Han character

馗: Hán Việt readings: quỳ[1]

1. Hán tự form of quỳ.

References

1. Trần (2004).