圻

See also: 垠

圻 U+573B, 圻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-573B ← 场 [U+573A] CJK Unified Ideographs 圼 → [U+573C]

Translingual

Han character

圻 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土竹一中 (GHML), four-corner 4212₁, composition ⿰土斤)

Derived characters

• 𭇵

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 224, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4903
• Dae Jaweon: page 459, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 423, character 7
• Unihan data for U+573B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		圻

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蘄	*ɡɯ, *kɯl, *ɡɯn
祈	*ɡɯl
頎	*ɡɯl
旂	*ɡɯl
圻	*ɡɯl, *ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn
蚚	*ɡɯl, *ɡɯːls
岓	*ɡɯl
玂	*ɡɯl
沂	*ŋɡɯl
掀	*qʰan
釿	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋkɯn
齗	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯn
听	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯnʔ
垽	*ŋrɯns, *qɯns
斤	*kɯn, *kɯns
菦	*kɯnʔ
靳	*kɯns
劤	*kɯns
勁	*kɯns, *keŋs
赾	*kʰɯnʔ
芹	*ɡɯn
近	*ɡɯnʔ, *ɡɯns
斦	*ŋɡɯn
欣	*qʰɯn
忻	*qʰɯn
昕	*qʰɯn
訢	*qʰɯn
炘	*qʰɯn, *qʰɯns
邤	*qʰɯn
庍	*qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
焮	*qʰɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡɯl, *ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn) : semantic 土 (“soil”) + phonetic 斤 (OC *kɯn, *kɯns).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qí
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cí
    • Wade–Giles: chʻi²
    • Yale: chí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
    • Palladius: ци (ci)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: kei⁴
    • Yale: kèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: gj+j, ngj+n, ngon

Rime
Character	圻	圻	圻
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Initial (聲)	群 (30)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	微 (20)	欣 (57)	痕 (53)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	I
Fanqie	渠希切	語斤切	五根切
Baxter	gj+j	ngj+n	ngon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨi/	/ŋɨn/	/ŋən/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨi/	/ŋɨn/	/ŋən/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiəi/	/ŋiən/	/ŋən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨj/	/ŋɨn/	/ŋən/
Li Rong	/ɡiəi/	/ŋiən/	/ŋən/
Wang Li	/ɡĭəi/	/ŋĭən/	/ŋən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ge̯i/	/ŋi̯ən/	/ŋən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí	yín	én
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4	ngan4	ngan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ər/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯl/, /*ŋɡɯːn/, /*ŋɡɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	圻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yín
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjɨn ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ər/
English	raised border, dike
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	圻	圻	圻
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	6638	6644	6661
Phonetic component	斤	斤	斤
Rime group	微	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	祈	垠	䖐
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯl/	/*ŋɡɯːn/	/*ŋɡɯn/

Definitions

圻

1. (literary) border; boundary
2. (archaic) area with a radius of 1,000 li
3. a surname

Compounds

• 中圻 (Zhōngqí)
• 八圻
• 北圻 (Běiqí)
• 南圻 (Nánqí)
• 封圻
• 蒲圻 (Púqí)
• 關路圻 / 关路圻 (Guānlùqí)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 圻 – see 垠 (“boundary; limit; dike; riverbank; raised border”). (This character is a variant form of 垠).

References

• “圻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

圻

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: げ (ge)、ごん (gon)
• Kan-on: き (ki)、ぎん (gin)
• Kun: さかい (sakai, 圻い)

Korean

Hanja

圻 • (gi, eun) (hangeul 기, 은)

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Vietnamese

Han tu

圻: Hán Việt readings: kỳ
圻: Nôm readings: kì

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