# 岐

| 岐 | U+5C90, &#23696; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C90 |
| ← 岏 [U+5C8F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 岑 → [U+5C91] |

## Translingual
### Han character

岐 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 山十水 (UJE), four-corner 2474$_7$, composition ⿰山支)

#### Derived characters

* 𮩣

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 308, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7936
* Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 762, character 11
* Unihan data for U+5C90

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岐 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡe) : semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 支 (OC *kje)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qí (qi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kei$^4$
* Eastern Min (BUC): gì / giè
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
* 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 / giè
*** Sinological IPA : /ki⁵³/, /kie⁵³/
* 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/
* Middle Chinese: gjie
Rime :
| Character | 岐 |
| 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
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 岐 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 17220 |
| Phonetic component | 支 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 祇 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡe/ |

#### Definitions

岐
* Used in 岐山 (Qíshān).
* Alternative form of 歧 (qí)
* Used in compounds.
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 千岐萬轍 / 千岐万辙
* 卓岐 (Zhuóqí)
* 岐伯 (Qíbó)
* 岐周
* 岐婆
* 岐山 (Qíshān)
* 岐岐
* 岐嶷
* 岐路 (qílù)
* 岐頭 / 岐头 (Qítóu)
* 岐黃 / 岐黄 (Qíhuáng)
* 石岐 (Shíqí)
* 走岐路
* 路岐
* 路岐人
* 黃岐 / 黄岐 (Huángqí)

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see 歧 (“forked road; fork; divide; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 歧).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### References

* “岐”, 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), “岐”, 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

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)
* branch off
* fork in road

#### Readings

* Go-on: ぎ (gi)
* Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
* Kun: えだみち (edamichi)、ちまた (chimata)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 岐
* ちまた Grade: 4
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see the following entry. :
| 【ちまた】 | [noun] fork in the road [noun] alley [noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議／街谈巷议) Alternative spellings 巷, 衢 |
(This term, 岐, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

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

岐: Hán Nôm readings: kì
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