# 郤

| 郤 | U+90E4, &#37092; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90E4 |
| ← 郣 [U+90E3] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 郥 → [U+90E5] |

## Translingual
### Han character

郤 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 金口弓中 (CRNL), four-corner 8762$_7$, composition ⿰谷阝)

#### Derived characters

* 𦃛, 𪼾

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1272, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39440
* Dae Jaweon: page 1771, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3774, character 10
* Unihan data for U+90E4

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 郤 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 腳 | *kaɡ |
| 脚 | *kaɡ |
| 卻 | *kaɡ, *kʰaɡ |
| 却 | *kʰaɡ |
| 谻 | *kraɡ, *kraɡ |
| 郤 | *kʰraɡ |
| 綌 | *kʰraɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kʰraɡ) : phonetic 𧮫 + semantic 邑 (“city”).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xì (xi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik$^1$ / kwik$^1$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xì
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sì
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^4$
*** Yale: syì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gwik$^1$ / kwik$^1$
*** Yale: gwīk / kwīk
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gwik$^7$ / kwik$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: guig$^1$ / kuig$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷɪk̚⁵/, /kʷʰɪk̚⁵/
* Middle Chinese: khjaek
Rime :
| Character | 郤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 陌 (115) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 綺戟切 |
| Baxter | khjaek |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰˠiæk̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰᵚiak̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰiak̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰiajk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰiɐk̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰĭɐk̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kʰiɐk̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hik$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʰrak/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰraɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 郤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khjæk › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k]ʰrak/ |
| English | (place and family name) |
| 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 | 郤 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10743 |
| Phonetic component | 郤 |
| Rime group | 鐸 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 隙 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰraɡ/ |

#### Definitions

郤
* (historical) Xi, a city around the lower reaches of present-day Qin River, Shanxi
* Alternative form of 隙 (xì, “crack; gap”)
* a surname

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 郤 – see 卻 (“to withdraw; to retreat; to drive back; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 卻).

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
* Kan-on: けき (keki)
* Kan’yō-on: げき (geki)
* Kun: あおぐ (aogu)、ひま (hima)

## Korean
### Hanja

郤 • (geuk) (hangeul 극, revised geuk, McCune–Reischauer kŭk, Yale kuk)
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