麒

麒 U+9E92, 麒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E92 ← 麑 [U+9E91] CJK Unified Ideographs 麓 → [U+9E93]

Translingual

Han character

麒 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈心廿一金 (IPTMC), four-corner 0428₁, composition ⿰鹿其)

1. legendary auspicious animal

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1510, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47657
• Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4731, character 19
• Unihan data for U+9E92

Chinese

simp. and trad.		麒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
期	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諅	*kɯ, *ɡɯs
其	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
錤	*kɯ, *ɡɯ
諆	*kɯ, *kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	*ɡɯ, *ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qí (qi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khî
• Eastern Min (BUC): gì
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ji

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khî
    • Hakka Romanization System: ki´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ki¹
    • Sinological IPA: /kʰi²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: gì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
    • Tâi-lô: kî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶ji
    • MiniDict: ji^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jji
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: gi

Rime
Character	麒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠之切
Baxter	gi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɡĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麒
Reading #	1/1
No.	9956
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/

Definitions

麒

1. Only used in 麒麟 (qílín).

Compounds

• 舞麒麟 (wǔqílín)
• 麒麟 (qílín)
• 麒麟兒／麒麟儿 (qílín'ér)
• 麒麟座 (Qílínzuò)
• 麒麟楦 (qílínxuàn)
• 麒麟菜 (qílíncài)

 

Japanese

Kanji

麒

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi); ご (go)
• Kan-on: き (ki)

Compounds

• 麒麟(きりん) (kirin)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 麒 (MC gi). Recorded as Middle Korean 긔 (kuy) (Yale: kuy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

麒 (eumhun 기린 기 (girin gi))

1. Hanja form^? of 기 (“giraffe; qilin”).

Compounds

• 기린 (麒麟, girin)
• 기린아 (麒麟兒, girina)
• 기린과 (麒麟科, girin'gwa)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

麒: Hán Nôm readings: kì, kỳ

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