䙡

䙡 U+4661, 䙡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4661 ← 䙠 [U+4660] CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A 䙢 → [U+4662]

Translingual

Han character

䙡 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 中中一金 (LLMC), composition ⿰衤貴)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1124, character 42
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3114, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4661

Chinese

trad.		䙡
simp.		䙌

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuì (kui⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kui² / kwui²

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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): /kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (䙡兒 / 䙌儿)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuìr
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuèir
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuei⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: kwèir
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuell
    • Palladius: куйр (kujr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯əɻ⁵¹/

Note: kuìr - “knot”.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kui² / kwui²
    • Yale: kúi / kwúi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kui² / kwui²
    • Guangdong Romanization: kui² / kuui²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːi̯³⁵/, /kʷʰuːi̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwijH

Rime
Character	䙡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	丘愧切
Baxter	khwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷᵚiH/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjwiH/
Li Rong	/kʰjuiH/
Wang Li	/kʰwiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	kuì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰruds/, /*kʰluds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	䙡	䙡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	4732	4749
Phonetic component	貴	貴
Rime group	隊	隊
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	喟	𥽂
Old Chinese	/*kʰruds/	/*kʰluds/

Definitions

䙡

1. (dialectal) to tie up; to fasten
2. (dialectal) knot; button

   活䙡兒／活䙌儿  ―  huókuìr  ―  slip-knot

   死䙡兒／死䙌儿  ―  sǐkuìr  ―  fast-knot

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 䙡 – see 繪 (“to draw; to sketch; to paint; to describe; to portray; to depict; etc.”). (This character is recorded in one or more historical dictionaries as a variant form of 繪).

References

• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (粵拼資料庫)