匄

匄	U+5304, 匄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5304

← 匃
[U+5303]

CJK Unified Ideographs

包 →
[U+5305]

Translingual

Han character

匄 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心卜女 (PYV) or 難心卜女 (XPYV), composition ⿹勹亡)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 150, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2505
Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 257, character 5
Unihan data for U+5304

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丐) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
丐	kaːds, kaːd
匄	*kaːds

Original form of 丐 and 匃. It represents the tip of a blade 亡 inside the character that represents a knife 刀. Its original meaning is not fully clear; perhaps it was "damage".

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): gài (gai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄍㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): koi³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: gài
  - Zhuyin: ㄍㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: gài
  - Wade–Giles: kai⁴
  - Yale: gài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gay
  - Palladius: гай (gaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: koi³
  - Yale: koi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: koi³
  - Guangdong Romanization: koi³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɔːi̯³³/

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*kaːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	匄
Reading #	1/1
No.	3563
Phonetic component	丐
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蓋
Old Chinese	/*kaːds/
Notes	原作匃，現漢詞典用此

Definitions

匄

to beg/pray for mercy
prayer

Japanese

Kanji

匄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: かい (kai)
Kan-on: かい (kai)、かつ (katsu)
Kan’yō-on: がい (gai)
Kun: もとめる (motomeru)

Korean

Hanja

匄 • (gae, gal) (hangeul 개, 갈, revised gae, gal, McCune–Reischauer kae, kal)

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