忌

忌 U+5FCC, 忌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FCC ← 忋 [U+5FCB] CJK Unified Ideographs 忍 → [U+5FCD]

忌 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸山心 (SUP), four-corner 1733₁, composition ⿱己心)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 376, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10310
• Dae Jaweon: page 702, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2270, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5FCC

simp. and trad.		忌
alternative forms		坖 ancient

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡɯs) : phonetic 己 (OC *kɯʔ) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

忌

1. to be jealous; to envy; to hate

   妒忌  ―  dùjì  ―  to envy

2. (literary, or in compounds) to fear; to dread
3. to avoid
4. to abstain; to drop; to stop; to give up (a bad habit)
5. to taboo; to prohibit
6. taboo
7. (literary or Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) anniversary of the death of one's elder

   忌辰 [Hokkien]  ―  kī-sîn [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  anniversary of a death

   忌日 [Hokkien]  ―  kī-ji̍t [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  anniversary of a death

   今仔咧共阮阿媽做忌。 [Philippine Hokkien, trad.]
   今仔咧共阮阿妈做忌。 [Philippine Hokkien, simp.]

   Kin-á lé kāng gún a-má chòe-kī. [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   Today, the death anniversary is being held for our paternal grandmother.

8. a surname: Ji

• (to be jealous):

• (to fear):

• (to abstain): 戒除 (jièchú)

• 嫉 (jí)

For pronunciation and definitions of 忌 – see 嫉 (“to envy; to be jealous; to hate; to resent”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 嫉).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

• “忌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mourning
2. to abhor
3. abhorrent, detestable
4. death anniversary

• Go-on: ご (go)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: いむ (imu, 忌む, Jōyō)、いみ (imi, 忌み)、いましい (imashii, 忌ましい)、いまう (imau, 忌まう)、いまわしい (imawashii, 忌まわしい, Jōyō)
• Nanori: いまわ (imawa)

Kanji in this term
忌
き Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 忌 (MC giH).

• (Tokyo) き [kíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [kʲi]

忌(き) • (ki) 

1. mourning
2. anniversary of someone's death

忌 (eumhun 꺼릴 기 (kkeoril gi))

1. hanja form^? of 기 (“jealous, envious”)
2. hanja form^? of 기 (“fear”)

忌: Hán Việt readings: kí, kị, kỵ
忌: Nôm readings: cạy, cậy, cữ, kiêng, kị, kỵ

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