隗

隗 (Kangxi radical 170, 阜+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 弓中竹山戈 (NLHUI), four-corner 7621₃, composition ⿰阝鬼)

• 𠏁, 㠕

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1358, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41788
• Dae Jaweon: page 1862, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4147, character 4
• Unihan data for U+9697

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋɡuːlʔ): semantic 阝 (“soil mountain”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ).

隗

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) high; lofty

   杳隗  ―  yǎowěi  ―  high and steep

2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to collapse; to fall
3. a surname

Wang Guowei (1923) (apud Khayutina, 2016) connects this surname, also written as 媿／愧 (kuí), to the ethnonym 鬼方 (Guǐfāng).

隗

1. a surname

   • 潞、洛、泉、徐、蒲，皆赤狄，隗姓也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 韋昭 Wei Zhao,《國語注》Commentaries on Discourses of the States, Ch. 16

     Lù, Luò, Quán, Xú, Pú, jiē Chìdí, Kuí xìng yě. [Pinyin]

     Lu, Luo, Quan, Xu, and Pu were all Red Di, surnamed Kui.

• Khayutina, Maria. (2016). "The Tombs of the Rulers of Peng and Relationships between Zhou and Northern Non-Zhou Lineages (Until the Early Ninth Century B.C.)" in Shaughnessy, Edward L. (ed.) Imprints of Kinship: Studies of Recently Discovered Bronze Inscriptions from Ancient China Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. pp. 71-132

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. high
2. steep

• Go-on: げ (ge)
• Kan-on: がい (gai)
• Kan’yō-on: かい (kai)
• Kun: けわしい (kewashii, 隗しい)、たかい (takai)

隗 • (a) (hangeul 아)

1. high
2. lofty