# 桔

| 桔 | U+6854, &#26708; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6854 |
| ← 桓 [U+6853] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 桕 → [U+6855] |

## Translingual
### Han character

桔 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木土口 (DGR), four-corner 4496$_1$, composition ⿰木吉)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 526, character 8
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14777
* Dae Jaweon: page 915, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1194, character 3
* Unihan data for U+6854

## 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kiːd): semantic 木 (“wood”) + phonetic 吉 (OC *klid).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jié (jie$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): git$^3$ / gat$^1$
* 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: git$^3$ / gat$^1$
*** Yale: git / gāt
*** Cantonese Pinyin: git$^8$ / gat$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gid$^3$ / ged$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kiːt̚³/, /kɐt̚⁵/
* Middle Chinese: ket
Rime :
| Character | 桔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) |
| Final (韻) | 屑 (87) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 古屑切 |
| Baxter | ket |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ket̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ket̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kɛt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kɛt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /ket̚/ |
| Wang Li | /kiet̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /kiet̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jie |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | git$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*kiːd/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 桔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5683 |
| Phonetic component | 吉 |
| Rime group | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 結 |
| Old Chinese | /*kiːd/ |

#### Definitions

桔
* Used in 桔梗 (jiégěng).
* Used in 桔槔 (jiégāo, “well sweep”); also used as its short form.
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to suspend with a well sweep

#### Compounds

* 桔桀
* 桔梗 (jiégěng)
* 桔槔 (jiégāo)
* 桔槔烽

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jú (ju$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gat$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kiat
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jú
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄩˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jyú
*** Wade–Giles: chü$^2$
*** Yale: jyú
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyu
*** Palladius: цзюй (czjuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕy³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gat$^1$
*** Yale: gāt
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gat$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ged$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /kɐt̚⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kiat
*** Tâi-lô: kiat
*** Phofsit Daibuun: kiad
*** IPA (Xiamen): /kiɛt̚³²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɛt̚⁵/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /kiɛt̚³²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /kiɛt̚³²/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /kiɛt̚³²/

#### Definitions

桔
* Alternative form of 橘 (jú)

#### Usage notes

桔 was included as the simplified form of 橘 (jú) in the second round of simplification in 1977. The current standard in Mainland China, the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters (通用规范汉字表), does not mention that 桔 is a simplification of 橘 (jú). A Dictionary of Current Chinese (现代汉语词典) and the Xinhua Dictionary (新华字典) list 桔 as a separate entry from 橘 (jú) (unlike other variants, which are usually put beside the main character in parentheses) and define 桔 as a common variant for 橘 (jú), while Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) proscribes the use of 桔 as the simplified form of 橘 (jú).
In Cantonese, 桔 is generally used for gat$^1$, while 橘 is used for gwat$^1$.

#### Compounds

* 柑桔 (gānjú)
* 桔仔
* 桔仔汁
* 桔仔餅 / 桔仔饼
* 運桔 / 运桔
* 金桔 (jīnjú)
* 金桔仔

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xié (xie$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄝˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): kit$^3$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xié
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄝˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: sié
*** Wade–Giles: hsieh$^2$
*** Yale: syé
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shye
*** Palladius: се (se)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi̯ɛ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: kit$^3$
*** Yale: kit
*** Cantonese Pinyin: kit$^8$
*** Guangdong Romanization: kid$^3$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʰiːt̚³/

#### Definitions

桔
* Only used in 桔柣.

### References

* “桔”, 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

(Jinmeiyō kanji)
* (used in plant names)

#### Readings

* Go-on: けち (kechi)
* Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)
* Kan’yō-on: きち (kichi)
* Kun: き (ki)

#### Compounds

* 桔梗 (ききょう, ​kikyō): the platycodon or Chinese bellflower, Platycodon grandiflorus
* 桔木 (はねぎ, ​hanegi): a wooden lever used to remove something; part of a roof; part of a ship's stern
* 桔槹 (きっこう, ​kikkō; けっこう, ​kekkō): alternate for 撥ね釣瓶, 撥釣瓶 (はねつるべ, ​hanetsurube): an early kind of device using a long pole with a counterbalance as a lever to get water out of a well

## Korean
### Hanja

桔 • (gil) (hangeul 길, revised gil, McCune–Reischauer kil, Yale kil)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

桔: Hán Nôm readings: cát, quất, kết
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