# 刈

| 刈 | U+5208, &#21000; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5208 |
| ← 切 [U+5207] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 刉 → [U+5209] |

## Translingual
### Han character

刈 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 大中弓 (KLN), four-corner 4200$_0$, composition ⿰乂刂)
* cut off, reap, mow
* sickle

#### Derived characters

* 苅

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 136, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1859
* Dae Jaweon: page 307, character 6
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 323, character 7
* Unihan data for U+5208

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 艾 | *ŋaːds, *ŋads |
| 鴱 | *ŋaːds, *ŋads |
| 餀 | *hŋaːds |
| 刈 | *ŋads |
| 乂 | *ŋads |
Originally written as 乂. Now phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋads) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : phonetic 乂 (OC *ŋads, “to mow”) + semantic 刂 (“knife”). The phonetic component originally indicates a sickle, hence it also adds part of the meaning.

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ŋa-p (“to mow, cut, reap”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007).
Cognate with Tibetan རྔ་བ (rnga ba), བརྔས (brngas), and colloquial Western Tibetan རྔབ་བ (rngab ba), which Coblin (1986) and STEDT treat as more conservative.

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yì (yi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaai$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ngāi
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yì
*** Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yì
*** Wade–Giles: i$^4$
*** Yale: yì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngaai$^6$
*** Yale: ngaaih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngaai$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngai$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋaːi̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ngāi
*** Tâi-lô: ngāi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ngai
*** IPA (Xiamen): /ŋãi²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ŋãi⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ŋãi²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ŋãi³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ŋãi³³/
* Middle Chinese: ngjojH
Rime :
| Character | 刈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 廢 (27) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 魚肺切 |
| Baxter | ngjojH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋɨɐi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋiɐi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋiɐi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋɨaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋiɐi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋĭɐi$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋi̯ɐi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngai$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋa[t]-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋads/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 刈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ngjoj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋa[t]-s/ |
| English | mow, cut |
| 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 | 刈 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14956 |
| Phonetic component | 乂 |
| Rime group | 祭 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 刈 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋads/ |

#### Definitions

刈
* to mow; to cut; to weed
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gě zhī tán xī, shī yú zhōnggǔ. Wéi yè mòmò, shì yì shì huò. Wèi chī wèi xì, fú zhī wúyì. [Pinyin]
    How the dolichos spread itself out, extending to the middle of the valley! Its leaves were luxuriant and dense. I cut it and I boiled it, And made both fine cloth and coarse, which I will wear without getting tired of it.
* (obsolete) crops that have been cut
    From: Lost Book of Zhou, circa 4th – 1st centuries BCE
    Yī chūn wéi qí nóng, èr xià shí qí gǔ, sān qiū qǔ qí yì, sì dōng dòng qí bǎo. [Pinyin]
    First, in spring encircle their farmlands; second, in summer eat their provisions; third, in autumn seize their harvests / crops, in winter expose their stores.
* (literary) sickle
    From: Guoyu, circa 4th century BCE
    Shíyǔ jì zhì, xié qí qiāng, yì, nòu, bó, yǐ dànmù cóngshì yú tiányě. [Pinyin]
    When the timely seasonal rain is just come, [they farmers] clasp their stakes, sickles, weeders, and hoes to work from dawn to dusk in the fields.
* (literary) to kill; to chop; to lop
* (literary) to eradicate; to eliminate
* a surname

##### Compounds

* 刈包
* 刈蓍遺簪 / 刈蓍遗簪
* 刈鉤 / 刈钩
* 刈香
* 剷刈 / 铲刈
* 斬刈殺伐 / 斩刈杀伐

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 刈 – see 割 (“to cut; to cut off; to sever; to divide; to cut apart; to break up; to partition; to split; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 割).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Jōyō kanji)
* reap, cut (grass or other plants), prune

#### Readings

* Go-on: げ (ge)
* Kan-on: がい (gai)
* On: かい (kai)
* Kun: かる (karu, 刈る, Jōyō)
* Nanori: かっ (ka')

#### Compounds

* 刈(か)る (karu, “cut, mow, harvest”)
* 刈(か)り込(こ)む (karikomu, “cut, dress, prune”)
* 刈(か)り取(と)る (karitoru, “mow, reap, harvest”)
* 刈(か)り入(い)れ (kariire, “harvest”)
* 刈(か)り立(た)て (karitate, “new mown, newly cut”)
* 稲(いね)刈(か)り (inekari, “rice reaping”)
* 草(くさ)刈(か)り (kusakari, “mowing, mower”)
* 丸(まる)刈(が)り (marugari, “close clipping”)

## Korean
### Hanja

刈 (eumhun 깍을 예 (kkageul ye))
* hanja form of 예 (“to mow”)

#### Compounds

* 예초기 (刈草機, yechogi, “grass mower”)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

刈: Hán Nôm readings: ngãi
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