琦

琦	U+7426, 琦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7426

← 琥
[U+7425]

CJK Unified Ideographs

琧 →
[U+7427]

Translingual

Han character

琦 (Kangxi radical 96, 玉+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一土大一口 (MGKMR), four-corner 1412₁, composition ⿰𤣩奇)

Derived characters

𣾏

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 734, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21062
Dae Jaweon: page 1146, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1120, character 10
Unihan data for U+7426

Chinese

simp. and trad.		琦
alternative forms		𤦺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
奇	kral, ɡral
畸	*kral
剞	kral, kralʔ
羇	*kral
掎	kral, kralʔ, *kʰrals
攲	kral, kralʔ, *kʰral
躸	*kral
踦	kralʔ, kʰral
寄	*krals
徛	krals, ɡralʔ
欹	kʰral, qral
崎	kʰral, ɡɯl
觭	kʰral, kʰralʔ
碕	kʰral, kʰralʔ, ɡral, ɡɯl
綺	*kʰralʔ
婍	*kʰralʔ
騎	ɡral, ɡrals
琦	*ɡral
鵸	*ɡral
錡	ɡral, ɡralʔ, *ŋɡralʔ
輢	ɡrals, qralʔ, *qrals
齮	*ŋɡralʔ
犄	*qral
猗	qral, qralʔ
椅	qral, qralʔ
旖	qral, qralʔ
陭	qral, qrals
檹	*qral
漪	*qral
倚	qralʔ, qrals

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡral): semantic 玉 (“jade”) + phonetic 奇 (OC *kral, *ɡral).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qí (qi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qí
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cí
  - Wade–Giles: chʻi²
  - Yale: chí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyi
  - Palladius: ци (ci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kei⁴
  - Yale: kèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kéi⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰei̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: gje

Rime
Character	琦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠羈切
Baxter	gje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ɡje/
Wang Li	/ɡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡral/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	琦
Reading #	1/1
No.	9999
Phonetic component	奇
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	竒
Old Chinese	/*ɡral/

Definitions

琦

Compounds

琦善
琦瑋 / 琦玮
琦行
瑰意琦行 (guīyìqíxíng)
韓琦 / 韩琦

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B02633
“琦”, 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

琦

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

Go-on: ぎ (gi)
Kan-on: き (ki)
Kun: たま (tama)

Korean

Hanja

琦 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki, Yale ki)

type of jade
strange, odd
rare

Vietnamese

Han character

琦: Hán Nôm readings: kỳ, kì

This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.