岐

See also: 歧

岐	U+5C90, 岐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C90

← 岏
[U+5C8F]

CJK Unified Ideographs

岑 →
[U+5C91]

Translingual

Han character

岐 (Kangxi radical 46, 山+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 山十水 (UJE), four-corner 2474₇, composition ⿰山支)

Derived characters

𮩣

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 308, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7936
Dae Jaweon: page 608, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 762, character 11
Unihan data for U+5C90

Chinese

trad.		岐
simp. ^#		岐

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 岐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
支	*kje
枝	*kje
肢	*kje
汥	kje, ɡe, *ɡres
衼	*kje
馶	kje, qʰjes, kes, ɡe
鳷	*kje
忮	*kjes
伎	kjes, ɡe, *ɡreʔ
豉	*ɡjes
翅	*qʰjes
翄	qʰjes, ɡe
妓	kre, ɡreʔ
庋	kreʔ, kʷreʔ
跂	kʰeʔ, kʰes, *ɡe
蚑	kʰes, ɡe
吱	*kʰes
岐	*ɡe
歧	*ɡe
鬾	ɡre, ɡres
技	*ɡreʔ
芰	*ɡres
攱	kʷreʔ, kʷres
庪	*kʷreʔ
頍	*kʰʷeʔ
屐	*ɡreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡe): semantic 山 (“mountain”) + phonetic 支 (OC *kje)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qí (qi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
Eastern Min (BUC): gì / giè
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi² / gyor²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶ji / ²ji

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qí
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cí
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi²
  - Yale: chí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kei⁴
  - Yale: kèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gì / giè
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³/, /kie⁵³/

Note: giè - mostly in place names.

Puxian Min
- (Putian, Jiangkou, Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gi²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki¹³/
- (Xianyou, Youyang, Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki²⁴/
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gyor²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kyɒ¹³/

Note:

gi2 - literary;
gyor2 - vernacular, in place names such as 汀岐.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
  - Tâi-lô: kî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ji
  - MiniDict: ji^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jji
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²³/
- (Northern: Suzhou)
  - Wugniu: ²ji
  - MiniDict: ji^平
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /d͡ʑi²²³/

Middle Chinese: gjie

Rime
Character	岐
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	kei⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡe/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	岐
Reading #	1/1
No.	17220
Phonetic component	支
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	祇
Old Chinese	/*ɡe/

Definitions

岐

used in 岐山 (Qíshān)
alternative form of 歧 (qí)
Used in compounds.
a surname

Compounds

千岐萬轍 / 千岐万辙
卓岐 (Zhuóqí)
岐伯 (Qíbó)
岐周
岐婆
岐山 (Qíshān)
岐岐
岐嶷
岐路 (qílù)
岐頭 / 岐头 (Qítóu)
岐黃 / 岐黄 (Qíhuáng)
石岐 (Shíqí)
走岐路
路岐
路岐人
黃岐 / 黄岐 (Huángqí)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see 歧 (“forked road; fork; divide; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 歧).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

“岐”, 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–
李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “岐”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 160.
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “岐”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 181.

Japanese

Kanji

岐

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ぎ (gi)
Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
Kun: えだみち (edamichi)、ちまた (chimata, 岐)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
岐
ちまた Grade: 4
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 岐 – see the following entry.

【ちまた】

[noun] fork in the road

[noun] alley

[noun] (figuratively) the "town" (in metaphors for popularity, as in English talk of the town and Chinese 街談巷議／街谈巷议)

Alternative spellings
巷, 衢

(This term, 岐, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

岐 (eum 기 (gi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

岐: Hán Nôm readings: kì

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