儈

See also: 侩

儈	U+5108, 儈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5108

← 儇
[U+5107]

CJK Unified Ideographs

儉 →
[U+5109]

Translingual

Han character

儈 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人人一日 (OOMA), four-corner 2826₆, composition ⿰亻會)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 119, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1189
Dae Jaweon: page 252, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 226, character 7
Unihan data for U+5108

Chinese

trad.		儈
simp.		侩

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儈
Small seal script s05918
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
譮	*qʰruːbs
會	koːbs, ɡoːbs
儈	*koːbs
膾	*koːbs
鱠	*koːbs
襘	*koːbs
禬	koːbs, ɡoːbs
檜	koːbs, koːd
旝	*koːbs
澮	*koːbs
鄶	*koːbs
廥	*koːbs
鬠	koːbs, ɡoːd
劊	koːbs, koːd
獪	koːbs, kroːbs
繪	*ɡoːbs
懀	qoːbs, qroːbs, *qroːbs
薈	*qoːbs
嬒	qoːbs, qoːd
瞺	*qoːbs
噲	*kʰroːbs
璯	*kʰroːbs

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): kuài (kuai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kui²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): kòe

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: kuài
  - Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: kuài
  - Wade–Giles: kʻuai⁴
  - Yale: kwài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuay
  - Palladius: куай (kuaj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯aɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: kui²
  - Yale: kúi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kui²
  - Guangdong Romanization: kui²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰuːi̯³⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kòe
  - Tâi-lô: kuè
  - Phofsit Daibuun: koex
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /kue²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /kue⁴¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /kue²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /kue¹¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /kue²¹/

Middle Chinese: kwajH

Rime
Character	儈
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	古外切
Baxter	kwajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuɑi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɑi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɑi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwaj^H/
Li Rong	/kuɑi^H/
Wang Li	/kuɑi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kuɑi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gui³

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*koːbs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	儈
Reading #	1/1
No.	5494
Phonetic component	會
Rime group	蓋
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	儈
Old Chinese	/*koːbs/

Definitions

儈

go-between, broker, proxy

Compounds

女儈 / 女侩
市儈 / 市侩 (shìkuài)
書儈 / 书侩
賈儈 / 贾侩

Japanese

Kanji

儈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): かい (kai)、け (ke)
Kun: なかがい (nakagai)

Korean

Hanja

儈 (eum 괴 (goe))

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Vietnamese

Han character

儈: Hán Việt readings: quái^[1]^[2]^[3], khoái^[4]
儈: Nôm readings: cúi^[1]^[5], cuội^[5]

chữ Nôm form of cúi (“to bend (one's body)”)
chữ Nôm form of Cuội (“(folklore) a habitually lying man or boy sitting under a tree in the moon”)
- Nam Giao cổ kim lý hạng ca dao chú giải (《南交古金里巷歌謠註解》 "Past & Present Folk-ballads from the Hamlets and Alleyways of Jiao[zhi] in the South - Annotated "), folio 162a
  侩(Cuội)𦖑(nghe)𧡊(thấy)呐(nói)儈(Cuội)唭(cười)
  𪽝(Bởi)𫨩(hay)呐(nói)𠲝(dối)沛(phải)𡎢(ngồi)挹(ấp)𣘃(cây)
  Hearing that, Cuội smiled.
  For lying so often, he must sit hugging the tree.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Hồ (1976).
^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
^ Génibrel (1898).
^ Trần (2004).
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Nguyễn (2014).