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Translingual
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Han character
基 (radical 32, 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿金土 (TCG), four-corner 44104, composition ⿱其土)
References
- KangXi: page 231, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5197
- Dae Jaweon: page 468, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 449, character 7
- Unihan data for U+57FA
Chinese
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variant forms | 𡉊 𡉝 𡋵 踑 𨄎 |
Glyph origin
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Characters in the same phonetic series (其) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯ) : phonetic 其 (OC *kɯ, *ɡɯ) + semantic 土 (“earth”) – a foundation of earth.
Etymology
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“Gay”: borrowed from English gay into Cantonese, then from Cantonese to Mandarin.
Pronunciation
Definitions
基
- foot of a wall; foundation
- base of any building; foundations; basis
- (figuratively) basis; foundation; base
- † to lay a foundation
- cardinal; basic; capital
- (chemistry) radical; group
- † Alternative form of 朞 (“whole year, month or day”).
- (loanword, neologism, slang) gay; homosexual
Compounds
Derived terms from 基
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Japanese
Readings
Korean
Hanja
基 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki)
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Vietnamese
Han character
基 (cơ)
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