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See also: 凡, 凢, 儿, 幾, Л, л, and ԉ

几	U+51E0, 几 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E0

← 凟
[U+51DF]

CJK Unified Ideographs Category:CJK Unified Ideographs block#*0000020960

凡 →
[U+51E1]

Category:Han script characters#%20

Category:Character boxes with images#*0000012047

⼏	U+2F0F, ⼏ KANGXI RADICAL TABLE

← ⼎
[U+2F0E]

Kangxi Radicals Category:Kangxi Radicals block#*0000012047

⼐ →
[U+2F10]

Category:Han script characters#%20

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 16 几

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几Category:Translingual lemmas#几00几 Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#几00几 Category:Translingual symbols#几00几 Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#几00几 Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#几00几 Category:Pages with entries#几 Category:Pages with 5 entries#几 Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#几 (Kangxi radical 16, 几+0, 2 strokes, Cangjie input 竹弓 (HN), four-corner 7721₀, composition ⿰丿㇈)

Category:Han script characters#几00几 Category:Translingual Han characters with definition lines#几

Kangxi radical #16, ⼏.
Shuōwén Jiězì radical №493

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 𠘧 (U+20627) which is another radical in Shuōwén.

Derived characters

Appendix:Chinese radical/几
仉, 叽, 𡚫, 㞦, 𢁒, 𢎪, 𢖯, 𢩫, 㲹, 𤜝, 𨸔, 机, 𭭙, 𣦽, 𣬠, 玑, 肌, 矶, 𥘌, 𬓠, 竌, 䘛, 籶, 𥾊, 𰭗, 𫇔, 虮, 𮗸, 𧺋, 𧾾, 䡄, 𨱙, 釠(𰽕), 𮓟, 𩉜, 飢(饥), 𩨒, 𮬥, 𪊋, 𣽳, 𧇔, 𧶹, 𪗗
亢, 𡯂, 冗, 𭅠, 宂, 𫵳, 𭙍, 芁, 𣱻, 𠫞, 𤴪, 𥃯, 秃, 𥤤, 𥩕, 𦒲, 虎, 𧘊, 𧟣, 咒, 壳, 𢆻, 亮, 𩁸, 𣑽, 𧦕, 髠, 焭, 𪎑, 麂, 𨳋, 𭍚
䢳, 𧆡, 𩑏, 𬺲, 𧦔, 斻, 𣃲
讥, 机 (Simplified from 譏, 機 in traditional Chinese)
See also 𠘧#Derived characters
See also 𠘨#Derived characters

Related characters

幾Category:Translingual links with redundant wikilinks#几 Category:Translingual links with redundant alt parameters#几 (Traditional form of 几)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 133, character 57
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1737
Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 8
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 275, character 19
Unihan data for U+51E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 几
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
肌	*kril
飢	*kril
机	kril, krilʔ
虮	*kril
几	*krilʔ
麂	*krilʔ

Pictogram (象形)Category:Han pictograms#几00 – a small stool viewed from the side. The original version was 𠀃, in which the horizontal stroke at the bottom represents the floor and/or the ground.

See also the bottom component of 其, 真, and 典, in which 八 is the stylization of the legs of a table.

Unrelated to 鉛, in which the top component is a stylization of 八, representing stagnant water. Also unrelated to 朵, 凡, and 殳.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		几
alternative forms		𠀃机

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan Category:Chinese terms inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#几00 Category:Chinese terms derived from Proto-Sino-Tibetan#几00 *krəj (“foot, leg; stool”). Compare Tibetan ཁྲི (khri) and Burmese ခြေ (hkre).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jī, jǐ (ji¹Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters#几, ji³Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters#几)

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ, ㄐㄧˇ
Category:Mandarin terms with audio pronunciation
Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ / gei²
Eastern Min (BUC): gī
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): gi¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kí
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵ci

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jī
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ji
  - Wade–Giles: chi¹
  - Yale: jī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ji
  - Palladius: цзи (czi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, literary variant in Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: jǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jǐ
  - Wade–Giles: chi³
  - Yale: jǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jii
  - Palladius: цзи (czi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi²¹⁴/Category:Mandarin terms with multiple pronunciations#jī
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: gei¹ / gei²
  - Yale: gēi / géi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ / gei²
  - Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ / géi²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵/, /kei̯³⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gī
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: gi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: gi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kí
  - Tâi-lô: kí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kie
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /ki⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /ki⁵⁵⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /ki⁵³/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁵ci
  - MiniDict: ci^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²ji
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡ɕi³⁴/

Middle Chinese: kjijX

Rime
Character	几
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	居履切
Baxter	kjijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kiɪ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ki^X/
Shao Rongfen	/kjɪ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ki^X/
Li Rong	/ki^X/
Wang Li	/ki^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ki^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gei²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*C.kr[ə]jʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*krilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	几
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ kij^X ›
Old Chinese	/*C.kr[ə]jʔ/
English	stool
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	几
Reading #	1/1
No.	5760
Phonetic component	几
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	几
Old Chinese	/*krilʔ/

Definitions

几Category:Chinese lemmas#几00 Category:Chinese hanzi#几00 Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#几00 Category:Pages with entries#几 Category:Pages with 5 entries#几 Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#几

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese Category:Chinese terms with obsolete senses#几00) stool; chair
- 謀於長者，必操几杖以從之。長者問，不辭讓而對，非禮也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  谋于长者，必操几杖以从之。长者问，不辞让而对，非礼也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE
  Móu yú zhǎngzhě, bì cāo jī zhàng yǐ cóng zhī. Zhǎngzhě wèn, bù círàng ér duì, fēilǐ yě. [Pinyin]
  In going to take counsel with an elder, one must carry a stool and a staff with him (for the elder's use). When the elder asks a question, to reply without acknowledging one's incompetency and (trying to) decline answering, is contrary to propriety.
  Category:Classical Chinese terms with quotations
long narrow table; bench
small table
茶几 ― chájī ― tea tableCategory:Mandarin terms with usage examples

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (几):

→ Japanese: 几(き) (ki)
→ Korean: 궤(几) (gwe)
→ Vietnamese: kỉ (几Category:Vietnamese terms with redundant script codes#几)

Others:

→ Vietnamese: ghế (“chair”)

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 几Category:Chinese links with redundant wikilinks#几 Category:Chinese links with redundant alt parameters#几 – see 幾 (“how much; how many; what; which; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 幾).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 几Category:Chinese links with redundant wikilinks#几 Category:Chinese links with redundant alt parameters#几 – see 人 (“man; person; people; a person associated with a particular identity or trait; -er; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 人).

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 几Category:Chinese links with redundant wikilinks#几 Category:Chinese links with redundant alt parameters#几 – see 明 (“bright; light; brilliant; clear; limpid; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 明).

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 几Category:Chinese links with redundant wikilinks#几 Category:Chinese links with redundant alt parameters#几 – see 𠘧 (“refers to the wings of a bird in flight; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 𠘧).

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Japanese

Kanji

几

(Hyōgai kanji)

Category:Japanese kanji#几00 Category:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#几00 Category:Japanese hyōgai kanji#几00

table, table enclosure
table or wind radical

Compounds

References

“^▲几”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎ (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

几 (eumhun 안석 궤 (anseok gwe))Category:Korean lemmas#궤 Category:Korean terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#궤 Category:Korean hanja#궤 Category:Korean entries with incorrect language header#궤 Category:Pages with entries#几 Category:Pages with 5 entries#几 Category:Pages with raw sortkeys#几

back rest
desk

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

几: Hán Việt readings: kỉ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]Category:Vietnamese Chữ Hán#几00 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters
几: Nôm readings: kẻ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7], ghế^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7], kẽ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[6], kĩ^[1]^[2]^[3], kệ^[2], kể^[6]Category:Vietnamese Nom#几00 Category:Vietnamese lemmas Category:Vietnamese Han characters

chữ Hán form of kỉ (“(dated Category:Vietnamese dated terms#几00) a kind of bench or couch”)Category:Vietnamese Chữ Hán
chữ Nôm form of kẻ (“(derogatory Category:Vietnamese derogatory terms#几00) individual, person, man”)Category:Vietnamese Nom
chữ Nôm form of kẽ (“crevice, crack, seam”)Category:Vietnamese Nom
chữ Nôm form of kĩ (“careful; thorough”)Category:Vietnamese Nom

[tdcndg-1] 1 2 3 4 Nguyễn (2014).

[gdhn-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Trần (2004).

[btcn-3] 1 2 3 4 5 Hồ (1976).

[bonet-4] 1 2 3 Bonet (1899).

[genibrel-5] 1 2 3 Génibrel (1898).

[taberd-6] 1 2 3 4 5 Taberd & Pigneau de Béhaine (1838).

[tdcntd-7] 1 2 Nguyễn et al. (2009).

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几

Translingual

Han character

Usage notes

Derived characters

Related characters

References

Chinese

Glyph origin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Definitions

Descendants

Compounds

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

Japanese

Kanji

Readings

Compounds

References

Korean

Hanja

References

Vietnamese

Han character

References