鼷

鼷	U+9F37, 鼷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9F37

← 鼶
[U+9F36]

CJK Unified Ideographs

鼸 →
[U+9F38]

Translingual

Han character

鼷 (Kangxi radical 208, 鼠+10, 23 strokes, cangjie input 竹女月女大 (HVBVK), four-corner 7273₄, composition ⿰鼠奚)

a mouse

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1529, character 22
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48477
Dae Jaweon: page 2065, character 37
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4777, character 13
Unihan data for U+9F37

Chinese

trad.		鼷
simp. ^#		鼷

Glyph origin

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hai⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he²

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/

Middle Chinese: hej

Rime
Character	鼷
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
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鼷
Reading #	1/1
No.	13372
Phonetic component	奚
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	奚
Old Chinese	/*ɡeː/

Definitions

鼷

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) mouse (animal)

Compounds

鼷穴
鼷鹿 (xīlù)
鼷鼠

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “鼷”, 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

鼷

(Hyōgai kanji)

mouse

Readings

On (unclassified): けい (kei)、げい (gei)
Kun: はつかねずみ (hatsukanezumi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鼷
はつかねずみ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

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

【二十日鼠はつかねずみ】

[noun] Mus musculus, the common house mouse

Alternative spelling
廿日鼠

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

Korean

Hanja

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

mouse