# 祇

| 祇 | U+7947, &#31047; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7947 |
| ← 祆 [U+7946] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 祈 → [U+7948] |

## Translingual
### Han character

祇 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+4, 8 strokes in Chinese, 9 strokes in Japanese and Korean, cangjie input 戈火竹女心 (IFHVP), four-corner 3224$_0$, composition ⿰礻氏)

#### Derived characters

* 𭉌

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 840, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24639
* Dae Jaweon: page 1258, character 10
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2389, character 1
* Unihan data for U+7947

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 氏 | *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ |
| 衹 | *kje, *ɡe |
| 紙 | *kjeʔ |
| 帋 | *kjeʔ |
| 扺 | *kjeʔ |
| 坁 | *kjeʔ |
| 汦 | *kjeʔ, *tjil |
| 忯 | *ɡje, *ɡe |
| 眂 | *ɡje, *ɡils |
| 舐 | *ɦljeʔ |
| 芪 | *ɡe |
| 祇 | *ɡe |
| 疧 | *ɡe |
| 軝 | *ɡe |
| 蚔 | *ɡe |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡe): semantic 示 + phonetic 氏 (OC *skeŋ, *kje, *ɡjeʔ).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): qí (qi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kei$^4$
* 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/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
*** Tâi-lô: kî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kii
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
* Middle Chinese: gjie
Rime :
| Character | 祇 |
| 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
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k.d]e/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 祇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | qí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ gjie › |
| Old Chinese | /*[k.d]e/ (dialect: *k.d- > *ɡ.d- > *ɡ-, no palatalization) |
| English | earth spirit |
| 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 | 祇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 11526 |
| Phonetic component | 氏 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 祇 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡe/ |

#### Definitions

祇
* earth spirit
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) big
* to feel relieved; to be at ease
* this

#### Compounds

* 僧祇 (sēngqí)
* 土祇
* 地祇 (dìqí)
* 官員祇候 / 官员祇候
* 祇悔
* 祇樹有緣 / 祇树有缘
* 祇洹精舍
* 神祇 (shénqí)
* 阿僧祇 (āsēngqí)
* 靈祇 / 灵祇

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 祇 – see 只 (“only; just; simply; merely; originally; at first; etc.”). (This character is a variant traditional form of 只).

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02884

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | Shinjitai (extended) |
| 祇󠄂 祇+&#xE0102; (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho) | Shinjitai (extended) |
| Kyūjitai | 祇 |
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### Kanji

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: ぎ (gi)
* Kan-on: き (ki)
* Kan’yō-on: し (shi)
* Kun: くにつかみ (kunitsukami, 祇)、ただ (tada, 祇)、まさに (masani)
* Nanori: まさ (masa)

#### Compounds

* 阿僧祇(あそうぎ) (asōgi)
* 大山祇(おおやまつみ) (ōyamatsumi)
* 祇王寺(ぎおうじ) (giōji)
* 祇園(ぎおん) (gion)
* 神祇(じんぎ) (jingi)
* 天神地祇(てんじんちぎ) (tenjinchigi)

## Korean
### Hanja

祇 • (gi, ji) (hangeul 기, 지, revised gi, ji, McCune–Reischauer ki, chi, Yale ki, ci)
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#### Compounds

* 신기 (神祇, sin'gi)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

祇: Hán Việt readings: chi, chỉ, kì, kỳ
祇: Nôm readings: chỉ
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