鼷

鼷

鼷 U+9F37, 鼷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F37 ← 鼶 [U+9F36] CJK Unified Ideographs 鼸 → [U+9F38]

Translingual

Han character

鼷 (radical 208, 鼠+10, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹女月女大 (HVBVK), four-corner 7273₄, composition ⿰鼠奚)

1. a mouse

References

• KangXi: page 1529, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48477
• Dae Jaweon: page 2065, character 37
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4777, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9F37

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		鼷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (奚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
謑	*qʰraːs, *qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
膎	*ɡreː
鞵	*ɡreː
榽	*ɡreː, *ɡeː
鷄	*keː
雞	*keː
谿	*kʰeː
嵠	*kʰeː
溪	*kʰeː
磎	*kʰeː
螇	*kʰeː, *ɡeː
鸂	*kʰeː
奚	*ɡeː
豯	*ɡeː
徯	*ɡeː, *ɡeːʔ
蹊	*ɡeː
騱	*ɡeː
傒	*ɡeː
鼷	*ɡeː
蒵	*ɡeː, *ɡeːs
貕	*ɡeː
慀	*ɡeːs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Wade–Giles: hsih¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: hai⁴
    • Yale: hàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: hei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /hɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦei/▼

Rime
Character	鼷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡雞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦei/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦei/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛj/
Li Rong	/ɣei/
Wang Li	/ɣiei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɣiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼷
Reading #	1/1
No.	13372
Phonetic component	奚
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奚
Old Chinese	/*ɡeː/

Definitions

鼷

1. ^† mouse (animal)

Compounds

鼷穴

鼷鹿 (xīlù)

鼷鼠

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Japanese

Kanji

鼷

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mouse

Readings

• On (unclassified): けい (kei); げい (gei)
• Kun: はつかねずみ (hatsukanezumi)

Kanji in this term
鼷
はつかねずみ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Noun

鼷 (hiragana はつかねずみ, katakana ハツカネズミ, rōmaji hatsukanezumi)

1. Alternative spelling of 二十日鼠 (“house mouse”)

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Korean

Hanja

鼷 • (hye) (hangeul 혜, revised hye, McCune–Reischauer hye, Yale hyey)

1. mouse