街

街 (Kangxi radical 144, 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土土弓 (HOGGN), four-corner 2110₄, composition ⿴行圭 or ⿲彳圭亍)

• 𱔡

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1109, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34051
• Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 831, character 16
• Unihan data for U+8857

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kreː, *kreː): semantic 行 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).

Originally, the phonetic component is not related to the concept of earth (土) since in its original form it represents a pair of ritual axes perhaps made of jade 士. Hence, the link to the concept of earth in this character and 厓 either comes from folk etymology or its appearance in the Small Seal script.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/g-wa (“village”) (STEDT); see 里 (OC *rɯʔ, “village”) for more.

街

1. (countable) street (Classifier: 條／条 m c)

   街景  ―  jiējǐng  ―  street scene

   地下街  ―  dìxiàjiē  ―  underground street

   行落兩條街大把嘢食。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   行落两条街大把嘢食。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   haang⁴ lok⁶ loeng⁵ tiu⁴ gaai¹ daai⁶ baa² je⁵ sik⁶. [Jyutping]

   If you walk two blocks down the street, there will be a lot to eat.

2. market; fair
3. short for 街道 (jiēdào, “subdistrict”)

   新港街  ―  Xīngǎng Jiē  ―  Xingang Subdistrict

4. (Hong Kong Cantonese, figuratively) distance; margin (Classifier: 條／条 c)

   贏九條街／赢九条街 [Cantonese]  ―  jeng⁴ gau² tiu⁴ gaai¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to win by a large margin (literally, “to win with a distance of nine street blocks”)

5. (Hong Kong Cantonese) outside; the public

   街外人 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai¹ ngoi⁶ jan⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  outsider

   街症 [Cantonese]  ―  gaai¹ zing³ [Jyutping]  ―  outpatient clinic

6. a surname

• → Bouyei: gaail
• → White Hmong: kev
• → Zhuang: gai

• “街”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
• “街”, 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–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. main street or boulevard

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan’yō-on: がい (gai, Jōyō)
• Kun: まち (machi, 街, Jōyō)、ちまた (chimata, 街)

• (Tokyo) まち [màchíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ma̠t͡ɕi]

街(まち) • (machi) 

1. alternative spelling of 町

• 街(まち)明(あ)かり (machiakari), 街(まち)明(あか)り (machiakari)

• IPA^(key): [ɡa̠i]

街(がい) • (-gai) 

1. town, district, area

From Middle Chinese 街 (MC kea|keaj). Recorded as Middle Korean 개 (kay) (Yale: kay) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (street; road):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [가]
• (in 街道 and 街頭):
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [가(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource

街 (eumhun 거리 가 (geori ga))

1. hanja form^? of 가 (“street; road”)

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

街: Hán Nôm readings: nhai

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