契

契 (Kangxi radical 37, 大+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 手竹大 (QHK), four-corner 5743₂, composition ⿱㓞大(GHTKV) or ⿱𭃌大(J))

• 偰, 喫, 𭛸, 𢝛, 揳, 𣸲, 猰, 楔, 𤋸, 𤧃, 𦝜, 碶, 禊, 稧, 褉, 𦩣, 𧩶, 䝟, 𧼪, 𨂰, 鍥(锲), 𩴅, 䱮
• 㓶, 𨜒, 䚉(𬢐), 𨜣, 䫔, 𪃈, 㝣, 葜, 𪰳, 窫, 𩮁, 𤟐, 瘈, 䦬

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 251, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5917
• Dae Jaweon: page 513, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 536, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5951

• Unihan data for U+F909

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰeːds, *kʰeːd, *kʰeːd, *kʰɯd) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): phonetic 㓞 (qià, “to engrave”) + semantic 大 (“person”), hence a person making an agreement and/or carving something with a knife.

Perhaps a variant of 栔 or viceversa, given that the two characters were used interchangeably in ancient text.

Exopassive of 鍥 (OC *keːd, *kʰeːd, “to cut”): "what has been cut" (Schuessler, 2007).

契

1. contract; deed
2. to agree; to conform with; to tally with
3. (literary) to carve; to engrave
4. (literary) carved writing; engraved writing
5. (Cantonese, Southern Min) adopted; adoptive; foster; sworn; nominal

   契細佬／契细佬 [Cantonese]  ―  kai³ sai³ lou² [Jyutping]  ―  blood brother; sworn younger brother

6. (Cantonese) to form a nominal kinship with; to adopt
   • 1952, 唐龍, directed by 潘炳權, 契爺艷史 [Foster-Daddy's Romantic Affairs]‎^[2], spoken by 阿紅 (紅線女 [Hung Sin Nui]):

     寒叔想契我真係求之不得呢。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     寒叔想契我真系求之不得呢。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     hon⁴ suk¹ soeng² kai³ ngo⁵ zan¹ hai⁶ kau⁴ zi¹ bat¹ dak¹ ne¹. [Jyutping]

     Uncle Hon wants to adopt me as a goddaughter; this is all I can wish for.

契

1. only used in 契丹 (Qìdān, “the Khitans”)

契

1. Xie (ancestor of the kings of the Shang dynasty)

契

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 契闊／契阔 (qièkuò, “assiduous; separate; etc.”)
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 挈 (“to take; to carry”)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A00864
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “契”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 262.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. pledge (allegiance)
2. commit oneself
3. promise (loyalty)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khejH); compare Mandarin 契 (qì):

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khet); compare Mandarin 契 (qiè):

• Go-on: けち (kechi)
• Kan-on: けつ (ketsu)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC set); compare Mandarin 契 (xiè):

• Go-on: せち (sechi)
• Kan-on: せつ (setsu)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: ちぎる (chigiru, 契る, Jōyō)、あう (au, 契う)^{←あふ (afu, 契ふ, historical)}、ちぎり (chigiri, 契り)、きざむ (kizamu, 契む)、わりふ (warifu, 契)
• Nanori: ちぎり (chigiri)、ちぎる (chigiru)、ひさ (hisa)

契(ひさし) • (Hisashi) 

1. a male given name

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khejH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kje̞(ː)] ~ [ke̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [계(ː)/게(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource

契 (eumhun 맺을 계 (maejeul gye))

1. hanja form^? of 계 (“contract, bond; deed; engrave”)
2. hanja form^? of 계 (“a Korean rotating savings and credit association”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khet).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kjʌ̹ɭ]
• Phonetic hangul: [결]

契 (eumhun 애쓸 결 (aesseul gyeol))

1. (literary) hanja form^? of 결 (“to be assiduous; to work hard; to toil”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC khj+t).

契 (eumhun 부족 이름 글 (bujok ireum geul))

1. (historical) hanja form^? of 글 (“a tribe name”)

From Middle Chinese 契 (MC set).

契 (eumhun 사람 이름 설 (saram ireum seol))

1. hanja form^? of 설 (“used in personal names”)
2. (historical) hanja form^? of 설 (“Xie (ancestor of the kings of the Shang dynasty)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]
• Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea (대한민국 대법원, Daehanmin'guk Daebeobwon) (2018). Table of hanja for personal names (인명용 한자표 / 人名用漢字表, Inmyeong-yong hanja-pyo), page 23. [4]

契: Hán Nôm readings: khế, khé, khè, khía, khít, khẻ, khẽ, khịt

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