# 聵

| 聵 | U+8075, &#32885; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8075 |
| ← 聴 [U+8074] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 聶 → [U+8076] |

## Translingual
### Han character

聵 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中一金 (SJLMC), four-corner 6518$_6$, composition ⿰耳貴)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29175
* Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8075

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋɡruːds) : semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 貴 (OC *kluds).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kuì (kui$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kui$^2$ / wui$^6$ / ngoi$^6$ / kui$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: kuì
*** Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: kuèi
*** Wade–Giles: kʻuei$^4$
*** Yale: kwèi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuey
*** Palladius: куй (kuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kui$^2$ / wui$^6$ / ngoi$^6$ / kui$^3$
*** Yale: kúi / wuih / ngoih / kui
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kui$^2$ / wui$^6$ / ngoi$^6$ / kui$^3$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kui$^2$ / wui$^6$ / ngoi$^6$ / kui$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰuːi̯³⁵/, /wuːi̯²²/, /ŋɔːi̯²²/, /kʰuːi̯³³/
* Middle Chinese: ngweajH
Rime :
| Character | 聵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 皆 (34) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 五怪切 |
| Baxter | ngweajH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋˠuɛi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋʷᵚæi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋuɐi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋwəɨj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋuɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋwɐi$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ŋwăi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngaai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤruj-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡruːds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 聵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | kuì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngwɛj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ŋ]ˁruj-s/ |
| English | deaf |
| 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 | 聵 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4729 |
| Phonetic component | 貴 |
| Rime group | 隊 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 聵 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋɡruːds/ |

### Definitions

聵
* (literary) deaf
* (literary) muddleheaded

### Compounds

* 振聾發聵／振聋发聩 (zhènlóngfākuì)
* 昏聵／昏聩 (hūnkuì)
* 發矇振聵／发蒙振聩
* 發聾振聵／发聋振聩
* 眊聵／眊聩
* 矇聵／蒙聩
* 聾聵／聋聩 (lóngkuì)

### References

* “聵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* deaf

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): がい (gai)、げ (ge)、かい (kai)
* Kun: つんぼ (tsunbo)

## Korean
### Hanja

聵 • (oe) (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune–Reischauer oe, Yale oy)
* deaf