# 歧

| 歧 | U+6B67, &#27495; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6B67 |
| ← 武 [U+6B66] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 歨 → [U+6B68] |

## Translingual
### Han character

歧 (Kangxi radical 77, 止+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜一十水 (YMJE), four-corner 2414$_7$, composition ⿰止支)
* side road, fork of a road
* divergent, branching off

#### Derived characters

* 𡹉, 𤛽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 576, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16275
* Dae Jaweon: page 966, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1440, character 5
* Unihan data for U+6B67

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 支 | *kje |
| 枝 | *kje |
| 肢 | *kje |
| 汥 | *kje, *ɡe, *ɡres |
| 衼 | *kje |
| 馶 | *kje, *qʰjes, *kes, *ɡe |
| 鳷 | *kje |
| 忮 | *kjes |
| 伎 | *kjes, *ɡe, *ɡreʔ |
| 豉 | *ɡjes |
| 翅 | *qʰjes |
| 翄 | *qʰjes, *ɡe |
| 妓 | *kre, *ɡreʔ |
| 庋 | *kreʔ, *kʷreʔ |
| 跂 | *kʰeʔ, *kʰes, *ɡe |
| 蚑 | *kʰes, *ɡe |
| 吱 | *kʰes |
| 岐 | *ɡe |
| 歧 | *ɡe |
| 鬾 | *ɡre, *ɡres |
| 技 | *ɡreʔ |
| 芰 | *ɡres |
| 攱 | *kʷreʔ, *kʷres |
| 庪 | *kʷreʔ |
| 頍 | *kʰʷeʔ |
| 屐 | *ɡreɡ |

### Etymology

A prefixed derivative of 支 (OC *kje, “branch (of tree), limb; to support”); see there for more (STEDT).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qí (qi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kei$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): gì
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi$^2$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): kî
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ki$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qí
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cí
*** Wade–Giles: chʻi$^2$
*** Yale: chí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
*** Palladius: ци (ci)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kei$^4$
*** Yale: kèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kéi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰei̯²¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: gì
*** Sinological IPA : /ki⁵³/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: gi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ki¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
*** Tâi-lô: kî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kii
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ki$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khî
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰi⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: gjie
Rime :
| Character | 歧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 群 (30) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 巨支切 |
| Baxter | gjie |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ɡiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ɡiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ɡjɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /giə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ɡie/ |
| Wang Li | /ɡǐe/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /gie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | kei$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*N-ke/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 歧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ gjie › |
| Old Chinese | /*N-ke/ (dialect: no palatalization) |
| English | forked (road) |
| 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 | 歧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17221 |
| Phonetic component | 支 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 祇 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡe/ |

### Definitions

歧
* forked road
* fork; divide
* forked; divergent; different

#### Compounds

* 兩歧 / 两歧
* 分歧 (fēnqí)
* 多歧亡羊
* 多歧援喻
* 女歧
* 引入歧途
* 徘徊歧路
* 徬徨歧路
* 徬徨歧途
* 性別歧視 / 性别歧视 (xìngbié qíshì)
* 村路歧
* 歧亭 (Qítíng)
* 歧出 (qíchū)
* 歧嶷
* 歧念
* 歧旁
* 歧歧
* 歧異 / 歧异 (qíyì)
* 歧視 / 歧视 (qíshì)
* 歧義 / 歧义 (qíyì)
* 歧見 / 歧见 (qíjiàn)
* 歧路 (qílù)
* 歧路亡羊 (qílùwángyáng)
* 歧途 (qítú)
* 種族歧視 / 种族歧视 (zhǒngzú qíshì)
* 紛歧 / 纷歧
* 臨歧 / 临歧
* 誤入歧途 / 误入歧途 (wùrùqítú)
* 麥秀兩歧 / 麦秀两歧
* 麥穗兩歧 / 麦穗两歧

### References

* “歧”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “歧”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 181.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): き (ki)、ぎ (gi)
* Kun: ゆび (yubi)、わかれる (wakareru)

## Korean
### Hanja

歧 (eum 기 (gi))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

歧: Hán Nôm readings: kì
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#### References

* Nom Foundation