己

己 (radical 49, 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU), four-corner 1771₇, composition ⿱コ乚)

1. Kangxi radical #49, ⼰.

• Index:Chinese radical/己
• 包 (Japanese form)

• こ (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
• コ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• KangXi: page 326, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8742
• Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 983, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5DF1

Historical forms of the character 己
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

Pictogram (象形) – silk rope for binding objects. Original form of 紀 (OC *kɯʔ).

己

1. self; oneself
2. personal; private
3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems
4. A surname​.

• (heavenly stems) 天干; 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. itself, oneself

• Go-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: おのれ (onore, 己, Jōyō); おの (ono, 己); おら (ora, 己); おれ (ore, 己); つちのと (tsuchinoto, 己)
• Nanori: おと (oto); な (na); み (mi)

Used in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE) as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨i⟩, ⟨ko₂⟩, and ⟨go₂⟩.

From Middle Chinese 己 (MC kɨ^X).

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) き​ [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [kʲi]

己 (hiragana き, rōmaji Ki)

1. the sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems

   Hypernym: 十干 (Jikkan)

• 己 (き)巳 (し) (Kishi)

Originally a compound of 土 (tsuchi, “earth”, one of the Chinese five elements) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 弟 (oto, “younger brother”).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) つちの​と [tsùchínóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝt͡ɕino̞to̞]

己 (hiragana つちのと, rōmaji Tsuchinoto)

1. the sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems

   Hypernym: 十干 (Jikkan)

From 己 (ono, reflexive or first-person pronoun, see below) +‎ れ (re, “thing”, demonstrative nominalizer ending).

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) おのれ [ònóré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞no̞ɾe̞]

己 (hiragana おのれ, rōmaji onore)

1. reflexive pronoun: oneself
2. first-person pronoun: I, me
3. second-person pronoun: you (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonyms: お前 (omae), 貴様 (kisama)

己 (hiragana おのれ, rōmaji onore)

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   Synonyms: 自然に (shizen ni), 独りでに (hitori de ni)

己 (hiragana おのれ, rōmaji onore)

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己 (hiragana おの, rōmaji ono)

1. reflexive pronoun: oneself
2. first-person pronoun: I, me

   Synonyms: 私 (watakushi), 我 (ware)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) おれ [òré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ɾe̞]

己 (hiragana おれ, rōmaji ore)

1. Alternative spelling of 俺 (ore): first-person pronoun: I, me

己 (hiragana おら, rōmaji ora)

1. first-person pronoun: I, me

Sound shift from ono (see above).[1]

• 汝

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) うぬ [ùnú] (Heiban – [0])
  • (Tokyo) う​ぬ [úꜜnù] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝnɯ̟ᵝ]
• Pronunciation for pronoun senses unknown.

己 (hiragana うぬ, rōmaji unu)

1. second-person pronoun: you
2. reflexive pronoun: oneself

   Synonym: 自分自身 (jibun-jishin)

• 己 (うぬ)等 (ら) (unura)

己 (hiragana うぬ, rōmaji unu)

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己 (hiragana うら, rōmaji ura)

1. first-person pronoun: I, me

Sound shift from onore (see above).[1]

己 (hiragana おどれ, rōmaji odore)

1. second-person pronoun: you

   Synonyms: 己 (unu), 貴様 (kisama)

己 • (gi) (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune–Reischauer ki)

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己 (kỷ)

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