麒

麒	U+9E92, 麒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E92

Translingual

Han character

麒 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈心廿一金 (IPTMC), four-corner 0428₁, composition ⿰鹿其)

legendary auspicious animal

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1510, character 24
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47657
Dae Jaweon: page 2039, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4731, character 19
Unihan data for U+9E92

Chinese

simp. and trad.		麒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
基	*kɯ
箕	*kɯ
朞	*kɯ
稘	*kɯ
萁	kɯ, ɡɯ
期	kɯ, ɡɯ
諅	kɯ, ɡɯs
其	kɯ, ɡɯ
錤	kɯ, ɡɯ
諆	kɯ, kʰɯ
欺	*kʰɯ
娸	*kʰɯ
魌	*kʰɯ
僛	*kʰɯ
唭	*kʰɯs
棋	*ɡɯ
旗	*ɡɯ
淇	*ɡɯ
祺	ɡɯ, ɡɯ
琪	*ɡɯ
騏	*ɡɯ
綦	*ɡɯ
麒	*ɡɯ
蜞	*ɡɯ
綨	*ɡɯ
蜝	*ɡɯ
棊	*ɡɯ
碁	*ɡɯ
鯕	*ɡɯ
踑	*ɡɯ
藄	*ɡɯ
櫀	*ɡɯ
璂	*ɡɯ
禥	*ɡɯ
惎	*ɡɯs
帺	*ɡɯs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qí (qi²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kei⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khî
Eastern Min (BUC): gì
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kî
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ji

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/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khî
  - Hakka Romanization System: ki´
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ki¹
  - Sinological IPA: /kʰi²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: gì
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ki⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kî
  - Tâi-lô: kî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kii
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ki¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ki²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ki²³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶ji
  - MiniDict: ji^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³jji
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /d͡ʑi²³/

Middle Chinese: gi

Rime
Character	麒
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	渠之切
Baxter	gi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɡɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ɡɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ɡie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/gɨ/
Li Rong	/ɡiə/
Wang Li	/ɡĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/gi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	kei⁴

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ɡɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麒
Reading #	1/1
No.	9956
Phonetic component	其
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	其
Old Chinese	/*ɡɯ/

Definitions

麒

Only used in 麒麟 (qílín).

Compounds

舞麒麟 (wǔqílín)
麒麟 (qílín)
麒麟兒／麒麟儿 (qílín'ér)
麒麟座 (Qílínzuò)
麒麟楦 (qílínxuàn)
麒麟菜 (qílíncài)

Japanese

Kanji

麒

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: ぎ (gi); ご (go)
Kan-on: き (ki)

Compounds

麒麟(きりん) (kirin)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 麒 (MC gi). Recorded as Middle Korean 긔 (kuy) (Yale: kuy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

麒

Wikisource

麒 (eumhun 기린 기 (girin gi))

Hanja form^? of 기 (“giraffe; qilin”).

Compounds

기린 (麒麟, girin)
기린아 (麒麟兒, girina)
기린과 (麒麟科, girin'gwa)

References

국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese

Han character

麒: Hán Nôm readings: kì, kỳ

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