# 枅

| 枅 | U+6785, &#26501; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6785 |
| ← 构 [U+6784] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 枆 → [U+6786] |
| 枅 | U+2F8E0, &#194784; CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8E0 |
| ← 柺 [U+2F8DF] | CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement | 桒 → [U+2F8E1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

枅 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木一廿 (DMT), four-corner 4194$_0$, composition ⿰木开)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 514, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14525
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1164, character 1
* Unihan data for U+6785
* Unihan data for U+2F8E0

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 笄 | *kŋeː |
| 枅 | *kŋeː |
| 蚈 | *kŋeː, *ŋ̊ʰeːn |
| 羿 | *ŋeːs |
| 栞 | *ŋ̊ʰaːn |
| 雃 | *ŋaːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn |
| 詽 | *ŋreːn, *tŋ̊ʰeːn |
| 揅 | *ŋeːn |
| 幵 | *kŋeːn |
| 鳽 | *kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ |
| 豣 | *kŋeːn, *ŋeːns |
| 麉 | *kŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn |
| 趼 | *kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns |
| 汧 | *ŋ̊ʰeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːns |
| 岍 | *ŋ̊ʰeːn |
| 研 | *ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns |
| 妍 | *ŋeːn |
| 訮 | *hŋeːn |
| 鈃 | *ɡeːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kŋeː) : semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jī (ji$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gai$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jī
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ji
*** Wade–Giles: chi$^1$
*** Yale: jī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
*** Palladius: цзи (czi)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gai$^1$
*** Yale: gāi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gei$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɐi̯⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: kej
Rime :
| Character | 枅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 齊 (39) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古奚切 |
| Baxter | kej |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kei/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kei/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɛi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɛj/ |
| Li Rong | /kei/ |
| Wang Li | /kiei/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kiei/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gai$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤer/, /*[k]ˤer/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kŋeː/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 枅 | 枅 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jī | jiān |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kej › | ‹ ken › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ˁer/ (dialect: *-r > *-j) | /*[k]ˁer/ (W dialect) |
| English | crosspiece of wood on top of | crosspiece of wood on top of |
| 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 | 枅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6153 |
| Phonetic component | 幵 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 雞 |
| Old Chinese | /*kŋeː/ |

### Definitions

枅
* square timber pillars used as supporting beams in traditional wooden Chinese building or construction

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: け (ke)
* Kan-on: けい (kei)
* Kun: とがた (togata)、ひじき (hijiki)