# 闋

| 闋 | U+95CB, &#38347; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CB |
| ← 闊 [U+95CA] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 闌 → [U+95CC] |

## Translingual
### Han character

闋 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓弓人大 (ANNOK), four-corner 7743$_1$, composition ⿵門癸)
* cease, end, exhaust, stop
* word, turn, gap

#### Derived characters

* 𦘍

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41430
* Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4311, character 2
* Unihan data for U+95CB

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 睽 | *kʰʷiːl |
| 湀 | *kʰʷiːl, *kʷilʔ, *ɡʷilʔ, *kʰʷiːd |
| 聧 | *kʰʷiː |
| 藈 | *kʰʷiːl |
| 癸 | *kʷilʔ |
| 葵 | *ɡʷil |
| 鄈 | *ɡʷil |
| 楑 | *ɡʷil, *ɡʷilʔ |
| 戣 | *ɡʷril |
| 鍨 | *ɡʷril |
| 騤 | *ɡʷril, *kʷiːd |
| 揆 | *ɡʷilʔ |
| 猤 | *ɡʷils |
| 闋 | *kʰʷiːd |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): què (que$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄝˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: què
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄝˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cyuè
*** Wade–Giles: chʻüeh$^4$
*** Yale: chywè
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiueh
*** Palladius: цюэ (cjue)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰy̯ɛ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kyut$^3$
*** Yale: kyut
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kyt$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: küd$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰyːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: khwet
Rime :
| Character | 闋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 屑 (88) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 苦穴切 |
| Baxter | khwet |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰwet̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰʷet̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰuɛt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰwɛt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰuet̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰiwet̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kʰiwet̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | que |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hyut$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʷʰˤi[t]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷiːd/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 闋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | què |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khwet › |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷʰˁi[t]/ |
| English | finish, end |
| 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 | 闋 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4657 |
| Phonetic component | 癸 |
| Rime group | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 闋 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰʷiːd/ |

### Definitions

闋
* (literary) to stop; to end
    From: The Book of Rites, c. 4th – 2nd century BCE
    Yǒu sī gào yǐ yuè què, wáng nǎi mìng gōng hóu bó zǐ nán jí qún lì yuē: “Fǎn! Yǎng lǎoyòu yú dōng xù.” [Pinyin]
    The officers having announced that the music was over, the king then charged the dukes, marquises, earls, counts, and barons, with all the officers, saying, "Return, and nourish the aged and the young in your eastern schools."
* Classifier for songs, poems, etc.
    From: 2018, 許廷鏗 (Alfred Hui), 停半分鐘聽一闋歌 (Spare A Listen)
    mou$^4$ haa$^6$ zoi$^6$ naau$^6$ si$^5$ leoi$^5$ ting$^4$ bun$^3$ fan$^1$ zung$^1$ ting$^1$ jat$^1$ kyut$^3$ go$^1$ [Jyutping]
    Too busy in the downtown to spare half a minute to listen to a song
* Classifier for stanzas of a poem.

### Compounds

* 服闋／服阕
* 葛天八闋／葛天八阕

#### Usage notes

Often mistakenly written as 闕／阙 (què).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* close
* shut
* watch-tower
* rest

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): けつ (ketsu)、けち (kechi)、けい (kei)、け (ke)
* Kun: とじる (tojiru)

## Korean
### Hanja

闋 • (gyeol) (hangeul 결, revised gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kyŏl, Yale kyel)
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