癸

癸 (radical 105, 癶+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓人一大 (NOMK), four-corner 1243₀, composition ⿱癶天)

• 葵

• KangXi: page 783, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1193, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2760, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7678

Historical forms of the character 癸
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Shizhoupian script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - Multiple uncertain interpretations.

Possibly, this was a pictograph of a four handled plow, meant to be operated by 4 people at a time. This character shows how essential and commonplace, collective farming was roughly 3000 years ago, and for the entirety of the area's history.

The derivative 揆 is semantically related to the original word.

癸

1. the tenth of the ten heavenly stems
2. A surname​.

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

• (Min Nan) “Entry #5236”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. something J
   1. tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems
   2. tenth rank

• Go-on: き (ki)
• Kan-on: き (ki)
• Kun: みずのと (mizunoto, 癸)^{←みづのと (midunoto, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 癸 (kjwij^X)

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) き​ [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [kʲi]
• Homophones: 木, 樹, 生, 杵, 柝, 黄, 己, 危, 忌, 奇, 季, 紀, 鬼, 基, 揆, 期, 簋

癸 (hiragana き, rōmaji Ki)

1. something J; the tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems

水 (Mizu, “Water”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 弟 (oto, “younger brother”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) みずの​と [mìzúnóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA^(key): [mʲizɨᵝno̞to̞]

癸 (hiragana みずのと, rōmaji Mizunoto, historical hiragana みづのと)

1. the tenth of the ten Heavenly Stems

癸 • (gye) (hangeul 계, revised gye, McCune–Reischauer kye, Yale kyey)

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癸 (quý, quấy, quậy)

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