闃

See also: 阒

闃 U+95C3, 闃 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95C3 ← 闂 [U+95C2] CJK Unified Ideographs 闄 → [U+95C4]

Translingual

Han character

闃 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓月山大 (ANBUK), four-corner 7743₀, composition ⿵門狊)

1. alone
2. quiet, still

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1338, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41411
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4308, character 5
• Unihan data for U+95C3

Chinese

trad.		闃
simp.		阒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闃
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

	Old Chinese
瞁	*qʰʷeɡ, *qʰʷeːɡ
湨	*kʷeːɡ
郹	*kʷeːɡ
狊	*kʷeːɡ, *qʰʷeːɡ
鶪	*kʷeːɡ
鼳	*kʷeːɡ
犑	*kʷeːɡ
闃	*kʰʷeːɡ

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	闃
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	錫 (128)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	苦鶪切
Baxter	khwek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwek̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷek̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰuɛk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwɛjk̚/
Li Rong	/kʰuek̚/
Wang Li	/kʰiwek̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰiwek̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hik1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	闃
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qù
Middle Chinese	‹ khwek ›
Old Chinese	/*[k-m̥]ˁik/ (dialect: *-ik > *-ek)
English	quiet
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	闃
Reading #	1/1
No.	7038
Phonetic component	狊
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	闃
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷeːɡ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qù (qu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwik¹ / kwik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qù
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cyù
    • Wade–Giles: chʻü⁴
    • Yale: chyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiuh
    • Palladius: цюй (cjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰy⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gwik¹ / kwik¹
    • Yale: gwīk / kwīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwik⁷ / kwik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: guig¹ / kuig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɪk̚⁵/, /kʷʰɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khwek

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k-m̥]ˤik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷeːɡ/

Definitions

闃

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Compounds

• 闃其無人 / 阒其无人
• 闃寂 / 阒寂 (qùjì)
• 闃寂無聲 / 阒寂无声
• 闃然 / 阒然 (qùrán)

References

• “闃”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

闃

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: きゃく (kyaku)
• Kan-on: けき (keki)
• Kan’yō-on: げき (geki)
• Kun: しずか (shizuka)

Korean

Hanja

闃 • (gyeok) (hangeul 격, revised gyeok, McCune–Reischauer kyŏk, Yale kyek)

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