# 喟

| 喟 | U+559F, &#21919; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559F |
| ← 喞 [U+559E] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 喠 → [U+55A0] |

## Translingual
### Han character

喟 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口田月 (RWB), four-corner 6602$_7$, composition ⿰口胃)

#### Derived characters

* 𣽴

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 199, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3963
* Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 654, character 3
* Unihan data for U+559F

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 喟 | *kʰruːds, *kʰruds |
| 胃 | *ɢuds |
| 謂 | *ɢuds |
| 媦 | *ɢuds |
| 蝟 | *ɢuds |
| 渭 | *ɢuds |
| 煟 | *ɢuds |
| 緭 | *ɢuds |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): kuì (kui$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): wai$^2$ / wai$^6$
* 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: wai$^2$ / wai$^6$
*** Yale: wái / waih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: wai$^2$ / wai$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: wei$^2$ / wei$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /wɐi̯³⁵/, /wɐi̯²²/
* Middle Chinese: khwijH, khweajH
Rime :
| Character | 喟 | 喟 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (18) | 皆 (34) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | II |
| Fanqie | 丘愧切 | 苦怪切 |
| Baxter | khwijH | khweajH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰˠiuɪ$^H$/ | /kʰˠuɛi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰʷᵚi$^H$/ | /kʰʷᵚæi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰiuɪ$^H$/ | /kʰuɐi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰjwi$^H$/ | /kʰwəɨj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰjui$^H$/ | /kʰuɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰwi$^H$/ | /kʰwɐi$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kʰwi$^H$/ | /kʰwăi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | kuì | kuài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fai$^3$ | faai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷʰˤrə[t]-s/, /*[k]ʷʰrə[t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰruːds/, /*kʰruds/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 喟 | 喟 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | kuì | kuì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khwɛj$^H$ › | ‹ khwij$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ʷʰˁrə[t]-s/ | /*[k]ʷʰrə[t]-s/ |
| English | sigh | sigh |
| 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 | 喟 | 喟 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 12940 | 12941 |
| Phonetic component | 胃 | 胃 |
| Rime group | 隊 | 隊 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蒯 | 喟 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰruːds/ | /*kʰruds/ |

### Definitions

喟
* (literary) to heave a sigh; to sigh

### Compounds

* 不勝感喟／不胜感喟
* 喟嘆／喟叹
* 喟然 (kuìrán)
* 喟然而嘆／喟然而叹
* 感喟
* 慷喟
* 歎喟／叹喟

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* sigh

#### Readings

* Go-on: き (ki)
* Kan-on: き (ki)
* Kun: なげく (nageku, 喟く)、ためいき (tameiki, 喟)

## Korean
### Hanja

喟 • (wi, goe) (hangeul 위, 괴, revised wi, goe, McCune–Reischauer wi, koe, Yale wi, koy)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

喟: Hán Nôm readings: vị
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