閾

閾 U+95BE, 閾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95BE ← 閽 [U+95BD] CJK Unified Ideographs 閿 → [U+95BF]

閾 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 日弓戈口一 (ANIRM), four-corner 7715₃, composition ⿵門或)

1. threshold
2. separated, confined

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1337, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41384
• Dae Jaweon: page 1843, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4303, character 7
• Unihan data for U+95BE

trad.		閾
simp.		阈

Related to 國 (OC *kʷɯːɡ, “country, nation”); see there for more.

閾

1. (literary) threshold; doorsill; doorstep; doorway
2. (literary) limits; confines; boundary

• (threshold):

• “閾”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. threshold

• Go-on: いき (iki)^{←ゐき (wiki, historical)}
• Kan-on: よく (yoku)
• On: きょく (kyoku)^{←きよく (kyoku, historical)}
• Kun: しきい (shikii, 閾)^{←しきゐ (sikiwi, 閾, historical)}

• 男(おとこ)は閾(しきい)を跨(また)げば七(しち)人(にん)の敵(てき)あり (otoko wa shikī o matageba shichinin no teki ari)

Kanji in this term
閾
いき Hyōgai
goon

From Middle Chinese 閾 (MC xwik). Compare modern Cantonese 閾／阈 (wik⁶, /wɪk̚²/).

The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing.

• (Tokyo) いき [íꜜkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ikʲi]

閾(いき) • (iki) ^{←ゐき (wiki)?}

1. threshold

閾(いき) • (iki) ^{←ゐき (wiki)?}

1. threshold

Kanji in this term
閾
しきい Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 閾 – see the following entry.

【敷居しきい】 [noun] threshold, sill (bottom-most part of a doorway)

(This term, 閾, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Kanji in this term
閾
しきみ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 閾 – see the following entry: しきみ

(The following entry is uncreated: しきみ.)

閾 • (yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune–Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

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