# 觿

| 觿 | U+89FF, &#35327; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-89FF |
| ← 觾 [U+89FE] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 言 → [U+8A00] |

## Translingual
### Han character

觿 (Kangxi radical 148, 角+18, 25 strokes, cangjie input 弓月山人月 (NBUOB), four-corner 2222$_7$, composition ⿰角巂)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1145, character 28
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35198
* Dae Jaweon: page 1612, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3935, character 4
* Unihan data for U+89FF

## Chinese

* 觿

### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 孈 | *ɢʷeʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *qʰʷes, *ɢʷiʔ |
| 纗 | *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː, *sqʷe, *ɢʷes |
| 攜 | *ɡʷeː |
| 蠵 | *ɡʷeː, *ɢʷe |
| 鑴 | *ɡʷeː, *qʰʷe |
| 驨 | *ɡʷeː |
| 酅 | *ɡʷeː |
| 雟 | *ɡʷeː |
| 讗 | *ɡʷeː, *kʷreːɡ |
| 觽 | *ɡʷeː |
| 儶 | *ɡʷeːs |
| 觿 | *qʰʷe |
| 欈 | *ɢʷe |
| 瓗 | *ɢʷes |
| 携 | *ɡʷleː |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰʷe): semantic 角 (“horn”) + phonetic 巂.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xī (xi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kwai$^4$ / fai$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kwai$^4$ / fai$^1$
*** Yale: kwàih / fāi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kwai$^4$ / fai$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kuei$^4$ / fei$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷʰɐi̯²¹/, /fɐi̯⁵⁵/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: he$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /he¹³/
* Middle Chinese: xjwie, hwej
Rime :
| Character | 觿 | 觿 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) | 匣 (33) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (12) | 齊 (40) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | IV |
| Fanqie | 許規切 | 戸圭切 |
| Baxter | xjwie | hwej |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hiuᴇ/ | /ɦwei/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hʷiɛ/ | /ɦʷei/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xjuɛ/ | /ɣuɛi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /hwiə̆/ | /ɦwɛj/ |
| Li Rong | /xiue/ | /ɣuei/ |
| Wang Li | /xǐwe/ | /ɣiwei/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xwie̯/ | /ɣiwei/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | huī | huí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | fai$^1$ | wai$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʷʰe/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷe/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 觿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xjwie › |
| Old Chinese | /*qʷʰe/ |
| English | spike of horn or bone for opening knots |
| 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 | 觿 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 4631 |
| Phonetic component | 巂 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 隓 |
| Old Chinese | /*qʰʷe/ |

### Definitions

觿
* (historical) fid; bodkin; awl (initially made of bone or ivory and used to untie knots, later made of jade and used as an ornament)

### Compounds

* 佩觿
* 大觿
* 小觿
* 玉觿
* 觜觿
* 觿年
* 觿歲 / 觿岁
* 觿礪 / 觿砺
* 觿解
* 觿辰
* 金斷觿決 / 金断觿决
* 韘觿 / 𱂊觿

### References

* “觿”, 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), “觿”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

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### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: え (e)
* Kan-on: けい (kei)
* Kun: くじり (kujiri)、つのぎり (tsunogiri)

### Etymology 1

* Kanji in this term
* 觿
* くじり Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 觿 – see the following entry. :
| 【くじり】 | [noun] [from 934] a fid: a tool made of wood, bone, horn, or ivory and used to untie knots and work with cordage [noun] [from 1603] a kind of awl made of horn [verb] [from 794] stem or continuative form of くじる (kujiru, “to stick into something and open it up, such as a knot or a hole”) [godan] Alternative spellings 抉り, 挑り, 觹, 觽 |
(This term, 觿, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.) :

### Etymology 2

* Kanji in this term
* 觿
* つのぎり Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 觿 – see the following entry. :
| 【つのぎり】 | [noun] (rare, probably historical) a kind of awl made of horn Alternative spellings 觹, 觽 |
(This term, 觿, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.) :

### References

* くじり entry at WWWJDIC (Monash University mirror)
* つのぎり entry at WWWJDIC (Monash University mirror)