聵

See also: 聩

聵	U+8075, 聵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8075

← 聴
[U+8074]

CJK Unified Ideographs

聶 →
[U+8076]

Translingual

Han character

聵 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸十中一金 (SJLMC), four-corner 6518₆, composition ⿰耳貴)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 969, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29175
Dae Jaweon: page 1421, character 2
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2797, character 6
Unihan data for U+8075

Chinese

trad.		聵
simp.		聩

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
藬	*l'uːl
僓	l̥ʰuːlʔ, ɡluːds
頹	*l'uːl
穨	*l'uːl
蘈	*l'uːl
隤	*l'uːl
墤	l'uːl, kʰruːds
尵	l'uːl, r'uːl
蹪	*l'uːl
瀢	l'uːlʔ, lulʔ
鞼	kluːl, ɡruls
膭	kluːl, ɡluːls
憒	*kluːds
靧	*ɡluːds
潰	*ɡluːls
繢	*ɡluːds
嬇	ɡluːds, kʰruːds
殨	*ɡluːds
闠	*ɡluːds
簣	kʰruːds, ɡruds
嘳	kʰruːds, kʰruds
蕢	kʰruːds, ɡruds
聵	*ŋɡruːds
樻	kʰruds, ɡruds
䙡	kʰruds, kʰluds
匱	*ɡruds
臾	ɡruds, lo
饋	*ɡruls
櫃	*ɡruds
遺	lul, luls
壝	lul, lulʔ
瞶	luls, kluls
貴	*kluds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋɡruːds): semantic 耳 (“ear”) + phonetic 貴 (OC *kluds).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kuì (kui⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kui² / wui⁶ / ngoi⁶ / kui³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kuì
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kuèi
  - Wade–Giles: kʻuei⁴
  - Yale: kwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuey
  - Palladius: куй (kuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kui² / wui⁶ / ngoi⁶ / kui³
  - Yale: kúi / wuih / ngoih / kui
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kui² / wui⁶ / ngoi⁶ / kui³
  - Guangdong Romanization: kui² / wui⁶ / ngoi⁶ / kui³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːi̯³⁵/, /wuːi̯²²/, /ŋɔːi̯²²/, /kʰuːi̯³³/

Middle Chinese: ngweajH

Rime
Character	聵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	皆 (34)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	五怪切
Baxter	ngweajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠuɛi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷᵚæi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋuɐi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋwəɨj^H/
Li Rong	/ŋuɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ŋwɐi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋwăi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngaai⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤruj-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡruːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	聵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kuì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngwɛj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁruj-s/
English	deaf
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	聵
Reading #	1/1
No.	4729
Phonetic component	貴
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡruːds/

Definitions

聵

(literary) deaf
(literary) muddleheaded

Compounds

振聾發聵 / 振聋发聩 (zhènlóngfākuì)
昏聵 / 昏聩 (hūnkuì)
發矇振聵 / 发蒙振聩
發聾振聵 / 发聋振聩
眊聵 / 眊聩
矇聵 / 蒙聩
聾聵 / 聋聩 (lóngkuì)

References

“聵”, 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

聵

(Hyōgai kanji)

deaf

Readings

On (unclassified): がい (gai)、げ (ge)、かい (kai)
Kun: つんぼ (tsunbo)

Korean

Hanja

聵 • (oe) (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune–Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

deaf