喹

喹 U+55B9, 喹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55B9 ← 喸 [U+55B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 喺 → [U+55BA]

Translingual

Han character

喹 (Kangxi radical 30, 口くち+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口くち大土おおづち土ど (RKGG), four-corner 6401, composition ⿰口くち奎)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 201, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 652, character 7
• Unihan data for U+55B9

Chinese

simp. and trad.		喹

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい) : semantic 口くち (“mouth”) + phonetic 圭けい (OC *kʷeː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kuí (kui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fui¹
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹khue

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kuéi
    • Wade–Giles: kʻuei²
    • Yale: kwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kwei
    • Palladius: куй (kuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fui¹
    • Yale: fūi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fui¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fui¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuːi̯⁵⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹khue
    • MiniDict: khue^平ひらた
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹khue
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /kʰue⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kʰue⁴⁴/

Definitions

喹

1. Used in transcription.

Compounds

• 喹唑啉 (kuízuòlín)
• 喹啉 (kuílín)
• 喹喔啉 (kuí'ōlín)
• 氯喹 (lǜkuí)
• 羥氯喹／羟氯喹 (qiǎnglǜkuí)