憩

See also: 憇

憩	U+61A9, 憩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61A9

← 憨
[U+61A8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

憪 →
[U+61AA]

Translingual

Han character

憩 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP) or 難竹山心 (XHUP), four-corner 2433₇, composition ⿱⿰舌自心)

rest, take rest

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11246
Dae Jaweon: page 743, character 28
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2350, character 11
Unihan data for U+61A9

Chinese

trad.		憩
simp. ^#		憩
alternative forms		憇

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): abbreviated 恬 (“tranquil”) + 息 (“rest”). There is also the possibility that 憩 is phono-semantic (形聲 / 形声, OC *kʰrads), with 𠯑 (OC *ɡroːd) as the phonetic component.

Etymology

Possibly related to 歇 (OC *qʰad) (Wang, 1982).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qì (qi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hei³ / tim⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khè

(Teochew, Peng'im): ki³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qì
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cì
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi⁴
  - Yale: chì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chih
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hei³ / tim⁵
  - Yale: hei / tíhm
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hei³ / tim⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: héi³ / tim⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯³³/, /tʰiːm¹³/

Note: tim5 - nonstandard.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khè
  - Tâi-lô: khè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qex
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰe²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰe⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰe²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰe¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰe²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ki³
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi²¹³/

Middle Chinese: khjejH

Rime
Character	憩
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	祭 (37)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	去例切
Baxter	khjejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰjiaj^H/
Li Rong	/kʰjɛi^H/
Wang Li	/kʰĭɛi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*kʰrads/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	憩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qì
Middle Chinese	‹ khjej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qʰ<r>a[t]-s/
English	rest (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	憩
Reading #	1/1
No.	10174
Phonetic component
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*kʰrads/
Notes	從恬息省會意

Definitions

憩

(literary) to rest
小憩 ― xiǎoqì ― to rest for a bit; to take a breather
- 一心仰望，同心禱祈，相愛共享天憩。 [MSC, trad.]
  一心仰望，同心祷祈，相爱共享天憩。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1982 [1986], translation by 羅炳良 [Daniel P.L. Law] and 王培英, 樂哉家庭 [Happy the Home When God Is There], in 《生命聖詩》 [Hymns of Life]
  Yīxīn yǎngwàng, tóngxīn dǎoqí, xiāng'ài gòngxiǎng tiān qì. [Pinyin]
  When one their wish and one their prayer And one their heav'nly rest.

Compounds

休憩 (xiūqì)
小憩 (xiǎoqì)
少憩 (shǎoqì)
憩室 (qìshì)
憩息 (qìxī)
流憩
遊憩 / 游憩 (yóuqì)

References

“憩”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

憩

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

Go-on: かい (kai)
Kan-on: けい (kei, Jōyō)
Kun: いこい (ikoi, 憩い, Jōyō)^{←いこひ (ikofi, 憩ひ, historical)}、いこう (ikou, 憩う, Jōyō)^{←いこふ (ikofu, 憩ふ, historical)}、いこのう (ikonou, 憩う)^{←いこのふ (ikonofu, 憩ふ, historical)}
Nanori: やす (yasu)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 憩 (MC khjejH).

Historical readings

Recorded as Middle Korean 콍〮 (Yale: khyéy) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.
Recorded as Middle Korean 게 (key) (Yale: key) in Sinjeung Yuhap (新增類合 / 신증유합), 1576.

Pronunciation

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

Hanja

Wikisource

憩 (eumhun 쉴 게 (swil ge))

hanja form^? of 게 (“to rest”)

Compounds

게박 (憩泊, gebak)
게식 (憩息, gesik)
휴게 (休憩, hyuge)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

憩: Hán Nôm readings: khệ, khị

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References

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