蹊

蹊	U+8E4A, 蹊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E4A

← 蹉
[U+8E49]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蹋 →
[U+8E4B]

Translingual

Han character

蹊 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 口一月女大 (RMBVK), four-corner 6213₄, composition ⿰𧾷奚)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1231, character 7
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37747
Dae Jaweon: page 1703, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3729, character 8
Unihan data for U+8E4A

Chinese

trad.		蹊
simp. ^#		蹊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蹊
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
謑	qʰraːs, qʰreːs, *ɡeːʔ
膎	*ɡreː
鞵	*ɡreː
榽	ɡreː, ɡeː
鷄	*keː
雞	*keː
谿	*kʰeː
嵠	*kʰeː
溪	*kʰeː
磎	*kʰeː
螇	kʰeː, ɡeː
鸂	*kʰeː
奚	*ɡeː
豯	*ɡeː
徯	ɡeː, ɡeːʔ
蹊	*ɡeː
騱	*ɡeː
傒	*ɡeː
鼷	*ɡeː
蒵	ɡeː, ɡeːs
貕	*ɡeː
慀	*ɡeːs

Pronunciation 1

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hai⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): hê

(Teochew, Peng'im): hi¹ / hi⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hai⁴
  - Yale: hàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: hei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɐi̯²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: he²
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: há̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /he¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: he²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /he²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hê
  - Tâi-lô: hê
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hee
  - IPA (Xiamen): /he²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /he²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /he¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /he²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /he²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: hi¹ / hi⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi / hî
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hi³³/, /hi⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: hej

Rime
Character	蹊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	匣 (33)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	胡雞切
Baxter	hej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦei/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦei/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦɛj/
Li Rong	/ɣei/
Wang Li	/ɣiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ɣiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hai⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ˤe/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡeː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蹊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ hej ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ˁe/
English	foot-path
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	蹊
Reading #	1/1
No.	13367
Phonetic component	奚
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奚
Old Chinese	/*ɡeː/

Definitions

蹊

(literary) footpath
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to trample on; to cross; to traverse
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) footprint
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) path; way
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 徯 (“to wait”)

Compounds

別開蹊徑 / 别开蹊径
別闢蹊徑 / 别辟蹊径
另闢蹊徑 / 另辟蹊径 (lìngpìxījìng)
各闢蹊徑 / 各辟蹊径
成蹊
李下無蹊 / 李下无蹊
獨闢蹊徑 / 独辟蹊径 (dúpìxījìng)
蹊徑 / 蹊径 (xījìng)
蹊田奪牛 / 蹊田夺牛
蹊要
鼠蹊 (shǔxī)

Pronunciation 2

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qī (qi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kai¹
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): khi

(Teochew, Peng'im): ki¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qī
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ci
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi¹
  - Yale: chī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chi
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kai¹
  - Yale: kāi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kai¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: kei¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɐi̯⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khi
  - Tâi-lô: khi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qy
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kʰi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kʰi³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kʰi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰi⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰi⁴⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ki¹
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰi³³/

Definitions

蹊

used in 蹊蹺／蹊跷

Compounds

蹊蹺 / 蹊跷

References

“蹊”, 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–

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “蹊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

蹊

(Hyōgai kanji)

path

Readings

Go-on: げ (ge)
Kan-on: けい (kei)
Kun: みち (michi, 蹊)、わたる (wataru, 蹊る)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

蹊 • (hye) (hangeul 혜, revised hye, McCune–Reischauer hye, Yale hyey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蹊: Hán Nôm readings: khê

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