# 憩

| 憩 | U+61A9, &#25001; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61A9 |
| ← 憨 [U+61A8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 憪 → [U+61AA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

憩 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP) or 難竹山心 (XHUP), four-corner 2433$_7$, composition ⿱⿰舌自心)
* rest, take rest

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 26
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11246
* Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2350, character 11
* Unihan data for U+61A9

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : abbreviated 恬 (“tranquil”) + 息 (“rest”). There is also the possibility that 憩 is phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰrads) , with 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd) as the phonetic component.

### Etymology

Possibly related to 歇 (OC *qʰad) (Wang, 1982).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qì (qi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hei$^3$ / tim$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): khè
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ki$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: qì
*** Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cì
*** Wade–Giles: chʻi$^4$
*** Yale: chì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
*** Palladius: ци (ci)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hei$^3$ / tim$^5$
*** Yale: hei / tíhm
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hei$^3$ / tim$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: héi$^3$ / tim$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /hei̯³³/, /tʰiːm¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khè
*** Tâi-lô: khè
*** Phofsit Daibuun: qex
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰe⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰe²¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kʰe¹¹/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰe²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ki$^3$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khì
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰi²¹³/
* Middle Chinese: khjejH
Rime :
| Character | 憩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 溪 (29) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (37) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 去例切 |
| Baxter | khjejH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kʰˠiᴇi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʰᵚiɛi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kʰiæi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kʰjiaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kʰjɛi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kʰĭɛi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kʰi̯ɛi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | qì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hai$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʰrads/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 憩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ khjej$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/ |
| English | rest (v.) |
| 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 | 憩 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 10174 |
| Phonetic component | 憩 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 憩 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʰrads/ |
| Notes | 從恬息省會意 |

### Definitions

憩
* (literary) to rest
    小憩 ― xiǎoqì ― to rest for a bit; to take a breather
    From: 1982 [1986], translation by 羅炳良 [Daniel P.L. Law] and 王培英, 樂哉家庭 [Happy the Home When God Is There], in 《生命聖詩》 [Hymns of Life]
    Yīxīn yǎngwàng, tóngxīn dǎoqí, xiāng'ài gòngxiǎng tiān qì. [Pinyin]
    When one their wish and one their prayer And one their heav'nly rest.

### Compounds

* 休憩 (xiūqì)
* 小憩 (xiǎoqì)
* 少憩 (shǎoqì)
* 憩室 (qìshì)
* 憩息 (qìxī)
* 流憩
* 遊憩 / 游憩 (yóuqì)

### References

* “憩”, 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–

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* break
* rest period
* rest
* leisure

#### Readings

* Go-on: かい (kai)
* Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
* Kun: いこい (ikoi, 憩い, Jōyō)、いこう (ikou, 憩う, Jōyō)、いこのう (ikonou, 憩う)
* Nanori: やす (yasu)

## Korean
### Etymology

From Middle Chinese 憩 (MC khjejH).
* Recorded as Middle Korean 콍〮 (Yale: khyéy) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
* Recorded as Middle Korean 게 (key) (Yale: key) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

### Pronunciation

* (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA: [ke̞(ː)]
* Phonetic hangul: [게(ː)]
** Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

### Hanja

Wikisource 憩 (eumhun 쉴 게 (swil ge))
* hanja form of 게 (“to rest”)

#### Compounds

* 게박 (憩泊, gebak)
* 게식 (憩息, gesik)
* 휴게 (休憩, hyuge)

### References

* 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

憩: Hán Nôm readings: khệ, khị
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#### References

* Nom Foundation