# 拮

| 拮 | U+62EE, &#25326; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62EE |
| ← 拭 [U+62ED] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 拯 → [U+62EF] |

## Translingual
### Han character

拮 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手土口 (QGR), four-corner 5406$_1$, composition ⿰扌吉)
* laboring hard, occupied
* pursue

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 427, character 21
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11990
* Dae Jaweon: page 776, character 18
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1866, character 3
* Unihan data for U+62EE

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 秸 | *kriːl, *kriːd |
| 髻 | *kiːds |
| 夡 | *kʰids |
| 鴶 | *kriːd |
| 袺 | *kriːd, *kiːd |
| 頡 | *kriːd, *ɡiːd |
| 劼 | *kʰriːd |
| 硈 | *kʰriːd |
| 咭 | *kʰriːd, *ɡlid, *qʰlid |
| 黠 | *ɡriːd |
| 聐 | *ŋreːd |
| 趌 | *ked, *klid, *kʰid, *ɡrid |
| 結 | *kiːd |
| 拮 | *kiːd, *klid |
| 桔 | *kiːd |
| 狤 | *kiːd, *klid, *ɡrid |
| 擷 | *qʰiːd, *ɡiːd |
| 襭 | *ɡiːd |
| 翓 | *ɡiːd |
| 纈 | *ɡiːd |
| 吉 | *klid |
| 郆 | *kid |
| 詰 | *kʰid |
| 蛣 | *kʰid |
| 佶 | *ɡlid, *ɡrid |
| 鮚 | *ɡrid |
| 姞 | *ɡrid |
| 欯 | *qʰlid |
| 恄 | *qʰlid |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jié (jie$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gat$^1$ / git$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jié
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jié
*** Wade–Giles: chieh$^2$
*** Yale: jyé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jye
*** Palladius: цзе (cze)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gat$^1$ / git$^3$
*** Yale: gāt / git
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gat$^7$ / git$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ged$^1$ / gid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɐt̚⁵/, /kiːt̚³/
* Middle Chinese: kjit, ket
Rime :
| Character | 拮 | 拮 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 質 (48) | 屑 (87) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | IV |
| Fanqie | 居質切 | 古屑切 |
| Baxter | kjit | ket |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kiɪt̚/ | /ket̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kit̚/ | /ket̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kjet̚/ | /kɛt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kit̚/ | /kɛt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /kiĕt̚/ | /ket̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kĭĕt̚/ | /kiet̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ki̯ĕt̚/ | /kiet̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ji | jie |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gat$^1$ | git$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤi[t]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kiːd/, /*klid/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 拮 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | jié |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ket › |
| Old Chinese | /*kˁi[t]/ |
| English | grasp (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 | 拮 | 拮 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 5682 | 5695 |
| Phonetic component | 吉 | 吉 |
| Rime group | 質 | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 結 | 吉 |
| Old Chinese | /*kiːd/ | /*klid/ |

#### Definitions

拮
* Used in 拮据 (jiéjū).

##### Compounds

* 拮抗 (jiékàng)
* 拮据
* 拮花

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 揭 (“to raise; to lift up; to uncover; to unveil; to expose; to reveal; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 揭).

### Etymology 3

* For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 戛 (“lance; tap or strike lightly”). (This character is a variant form of 戛).

### Etymology 4

* For pronunciation and definitions of 拮 – see 㓤 (“(Cantonese) to pierce; to prick; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 㓤).

### References

* “拮”, 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

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: きち (kichi)、けち (kechi)
* Kan-on: きつ (kitsu)、けつ (ketsu)
* Kun: はたらく (hataraku, 拮く)

## Korean
### Hanja

拮 • (gil, gyeol) (hangeul 길, 결, revised gil, gyeol, McCune–Reischauer kil, kyŏl, Yale kil, kyel)
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## Vietnamese
### Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, cất): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 吉 (cát).

### Han character

拮: Hán Nôm readings: cất, cắt, gặt, gật, kiết, két, kít
* chữ Nôm form of cất (“to lift; to raise”).