几

See also: 凡, 凢, 儿, 幾, and Л
几 U+51E0, 几
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51E0
← 凟
[U+51DF] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 凡 →
[U+51E1]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

几 (radical 16, 几+0, 2 strokes, cangjie input 竹弓 (HN), four-corner 77210, composition ⿱一儿)

  1. Kangxi radical #16, ⼏.

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 133, character 57
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1737
  • Dae Jaweon: page 299, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 275, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+51E0

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 几
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (几) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
肌 *kril
飢 *kril
机 *kril, *krilʔ
虮 *kril
几 *krilʔ
麂 *krilʔ

Pictogram (象形) – stool (viewed from the side).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 几
alt. forms 𠀃

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəj (“foot, leg; stool”). Compare Tibetan ཁྲི (khri) and Burmese ခြေ (hkre).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 几
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居履切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kjɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kiX/
Li
Rong		 /kiX/
Wang
Li		 /kiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 几
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kijX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.kr[ə]jʔ/
English stool

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 几
Reading # 1/1
No. 5760
Phonetic
component		 几
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 几
Old
Chinese		 /*krilʔ/

Definitions

几

  1. † stool; chair
  2. long narrow table; bench
  3. small table
    茶几  ―  chájī  ―  tea table
Descendants
Sino-Xenic (几):
  • Japanese: 几 (き) (ki)
  • Korean: 궤 (几, gwe)
  • Vietnamese: kỉ (几)

Others:

  • Vietnamese: ghế (“chair”)

Compounds

  • 伏几
  • 几几
  • 几席
  • 几杖
  • 几案
  • 几筵
  • 方几
  • 明窗淨几／明窗净几
  • 燕几
  • 窗明几淨／窗明几净
  • 茶几 (chájī)
  • 隱几／隐几
  • 雪窗螢几／雪窗萤几
  • 高几

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 幾 (“how much; how many; what; which; etc.”).
(This character, 几, is the simplified form of 幾.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 人 (“man; person; people; human being; etc.”).
(This character, 几, is a variant form of 人.)

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 明 (“bright; light; brilliant; clear; limpid; etc.”).
(This character, 几, is an ancient form of 明.)

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of 几 – see 𠘧.
(This character, 几, is a variant form of 𠘧.)

Japanese

Kanji

几

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. table, table enclosure
  2. table or wind radical

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

几 • (gwe) (hangeul 궤, revised gwe, McCune–Reischauer kwe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

几 (kỉ)

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