吉

吉 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 土口 (GR), four-corner 4060₁, composition ⿱士口)

• 佶, 咭, 𡋥, 姞, 㣟, 恄, 拮, 洁, 狤, 桔, 㸵, 祮, 䂒, 硈, 秸, 袺, 結(结), 聐, 蛣, 夡, 詰(诘), 銡(𰽲), 鞊, 鮚(鲒), 黠
• 㐖, 劼, 㓤, 郆, 欯, 翓, 喆, 頡(颉), 鴶(𱉥), 𪜒, 迼, 趌, 䓀, 髻, 𫜖, 㔛, 臺, 嚞, 䦖, 𡕍, 調, 䭇

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 175, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3289
• Dae Jaweon: page 389, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 576, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5409

Ideogram (指事) derived from a ritual axe 士 and an open mouth 口, perhaps with a reference to rituals to obtain the gratitude of the ancestors and deities.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kjit (“happy; pleased”) (STEDT). Also compare Tibetan སྐྱིད་པ (skyid pa, “to be happy”) and Burmese ချစ် (hkyac, “to love, to be pleased”) (Schuessler, 2007, Hill, 2019).

Cantonese sense of “empty” arises from avoidance of 空 (hung¹), which is homophonous to 凶 (hung¹, “inauspicious”).

The Taiwanese Chinese sense of “to sue” arises from avoidance of 告 (gào, “to sue”), which is a typo form of it.

吉

1. auspicious; lucky

   Antonym: 凶 (xiōng)

   吉利  ―  jílì  ―  auspicious; lucky

2. good
3. (Cantonese, euphemistic) empty

   橫掂有間房吉咗喺度，不如租畀人住啊。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   横掂有间房吉咗喺度，不如租畀人住啊。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   waang⁴ dim⁶ jau⁵ gaan¹ fong^4-2 gat¹ zo² hai² dou⁶, bat¹ jyu⁴ zou¹ bei² jan⁴ zyu⁶ aa¹. [Jyutping]

   Since there's an empty room, why don't we rent it out?

   交吉卷 [Cantonese]  ―  gaau¹ gat¹ gyun² [Jyutping]  ―  Hand out an unanswered (empty) exam paper

   吉屋 [Cantonese]  ―  gat¹ uk¹ [Jyutping]  ―  unoccupied house

   吉舖／吉铺 [Cantonese]  ―  gat¹ pou³ [Jyutping]  ―  vacant shop

   請問呢個位係咪吉㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   请问呢个位系咪吉㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   ceng² man⁶ ne¹ go³ wai⁶ hai⁶ mai⁶ gat¹ gaa³? [Jyutping]

   Is anyone sitting here?

4. (Cantonese, euphemistic) emptiness; nothingness

   勞碌一生得個吉 [Cantonese, trad.]
   劳碌一生得个吉 [Cantonese, simp.]

   lou⁴ luk¹ jat¹ sang¹ dak¹ go³ gat¹ [Jyutping]

   A lifetime of labor amounts to nothing

5. (Taiwan, Internet slang) to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges

   這我一定吉／这我一定吉  ―  zhè wǒ yīdìng jí  ―  I will definitely sue for this

   • 再說認證是假的就吉你 [MSC, trad.]
     再说认证是假的就吉你 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 臺灣臺北地方法院 108 年訴字第 5610 號民事判決

     zàishuō rènzhèng shì jiǎ de jiù jí nǐ [Pinyin]

     I will sue you if you said the certification is fake again.

   • 昨天造謠吳宗憲是陳菊人馬的要被吉了 [MSC, trad.]
     昨天造谣吴宗宪是陈菊人马的要被吉了 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 臺灣花蓮地方法院 108 年花秩字第 29 號刑事裁定

     zuótiān zàoyáo Wúzōngxiàn shì Chénjú rénmǎ de yào bèi jí le [Pinyin]

     The one who rumoured that Jacky Wu is Chen Chu's staff is now sued.

6. Used in transcription.

   吉林  ―  Jílín  ―  Jilin (from Manchu gilin)

   吉爾吉斯／吉尔吉斯  ―  Jí'ěrjísī  ―  Kyrgyzstan

   吉布地  ―  Jíbùdì  ―  Djibouti

   吉隆坡  ―  Jílóngpō  ―  Kuala Lumpur

   吉爾福德／吉尔福德  ―  Jí'ěrfúdé  ―  Guildford

   姆布吉馬伊／姆布吉马伊  ―  Mǔbùjí Mǎyī  ―  Mbuji-Mayi

   1. short for 吉林 (Jílín, “Jilin Province”)
7. a surname
8. (～縣) Ji County (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)

• → English: Ji

• “吉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: きち (kichi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: きつ (kitsu, Jōyō)
• Kun: よい (yoi, 吉い)、よし (yoshi, 吉し)

• 吉(きつ) (kitsu)

吉(きち) • (kichi) 

1. good luck

吉(きつ) • (kitsu) 

1. alternative form of 吉 (kichi, “good luck”)

吉 (eumhun 길할 길 (gilhal gil))

1. hanja form^? of 길 (“luck”)

吉: Hán Việt readings: cát^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
吉: Nôm readings: kiết^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of cát (“auspicious, lucky”)