街

街 U+8857, 街
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8857
← 衖
[U+8856] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 衘 →
[U+8858]

Translingual

Han character

街 (radical 144 行+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹人土土弓 (HOGGN), four-corner 21104, composition ⿲彳圭亍)

References

  • KangXi: page 1109, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34051
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1573, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 831, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+8857

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 街
alt. forms 亍 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (圭) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
街 *kreː, *kreː
鞋 *ɡreː, *ɡreː, *ɡreː
娾 *ŋreː, *ŋreːʔ
佳 *kreː
鮭 *ɡreː, *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
涯 *ŋreː, *ŋre
崖 *ŋreː, *ŋre
啀 *ŋreː
厓 *ŋreː
捱 *ŋreː
睚 *ŋreːs
娃 *qreː
洼 *qreː, *qʷraː, *kʷeː
哇 *qreː, *qʷraː
胿 *ɡeː, *kʷeː
溎 *qeːns
觟 *ɡʷraːʔ
黊 *ɡʷraːʔ, *ɡʷreːs, *ɡʷeː
蘳 *ɡʷraːʔ, *qʰʷe
蛙 *qʷraː, *qʷreː
窪 *qʷraː
卦 *kʷreːs
挂 *kʷreːs
掛 *kʷreːs
詿 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs
罣 *kʷreːs, *ɡʷreːs, *kʷeːs
絓 *kʰʷreː, *ɡʷreːs
鼃 *ɢʷreː, *qʷreː
圭 *kʷeː
珪 *kʷeː
邽 *kʷeː
閨 *kʷeː
袿 *kʷeː
窐 *kʷeː, *ɡʷeː
茥 *kʷeː, *kʰʷeː
桂 *kʷeːs
筀 *kʷeːs
奎 *kʰʷeː
刲 *kʰʷeː
蝰 *kʰʷeː
楏 *kʰʷeː
睳 *qʰʷeː
畦 *ɡʷeː
眭 *ɡʷeː, *sqʰʷe, *qʰʷe, *qʰʷi
烓 *qʷeː, *kʰʷeːŋʔ
跬 *kʰʷeʔ
恚 *qʷes
硅 *qʰʷreɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kreː, *kreː) : semantic 行 + phonetic 圭 (OC *kʷeː).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • koe/ke/kere - vernacular;
  • kai - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 街
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
Harbin /kai⁴⁴/
/t͡ɕiɛ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /t͡ɕie²¹/
/kai²¹/ 老
Jinan /t͡ɕiɛ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiɛ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /t͡ɕiɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /t͡ɕiɛ²¹/
Xining /kɛ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kɛ⁴⁴/
/t͡ɕie⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kɛ³¹/
Ürümqi /kai⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kai⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kai⁵⁵/
Guiyang /kai⁵⁵/
Kunming /kæ⁴⁴/
Nanjing /t͡ɕiɛ³¹/
Hefei /t͡ɕie̞²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕie¹¹/
Pingyao /t͡ɕie̞¹³/
Hohhot /t͡ɕie³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ka⁵³/
Suzhou /kɑ⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /t͡ɕie̞³³/
Wenzhou /ka³³/
Hui Shexian /ka³¹/
Tunxi /ka¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kai³³/
Xiangtan /kai⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /kai⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /ke⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /ke²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kai⁵⁵/
Nanning /kai⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kai⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kai⁵⁵/
/kue⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kai⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /koi³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /kɔi²³/
Rime
Character 街 街
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 見 (28) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 佳 (31) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II II
Fanqie 古膎切 古諧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛ/ /kˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæ/ /kᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kæi/ /kɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kaɨj/ /kəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /kɛ/ /kɛi/
Wang
Li		 /kai/ /kɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kai/ /kăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jiā jiē
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 街
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jiē
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[k]ˤre/
English road-crossing

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 街 街
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 4527 4532
Phonetic
component		 圭 圭
Rime
group		 支 支
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 皆 佳
Old
Chinese		 /*kreː/ /*kreː/
Notes 本音佳

Definitions

街

  1. street
  2. market; fair

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

街

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

街 (hiragana まち, rōmaji machi)

  1. town; neighborhood

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

街 • (ga)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 가 (McCune–Reischauer: ka, Yale: ka)
    • Name (hangeul): 거리
  1. street; road

Vietnamese

Han character

街 (nhai, nhây)

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