皆

See also: 昆
皆 U+7686, 皆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7686
← 皅
[U+7685]
CJK Unified Ideographs 皇 →
[U+7687]

Translingual

Han character

皆 (Kangxi radical 106, 白+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 心心竹日 (PPHA), four-corner 21601, composition ⿱比白)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 786, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22699
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2647, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7686

Chinese

trad. 皆
simp. # 皆
alternative forms 𣅜

Glyph origin

Attested in bronze script as an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 比 (“two people; to compare”) + 曰 (“to speak”); to compare several people, hence all. 曰 later corrupts into 白. Based on the corrupted form, Shuowen reinterprets this character as a ideogrammic compound (會意) : 比 + 白.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 皆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古諧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨj/
Li
Rong
/kɛi/
Wang
Li
/kɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiē
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gaai1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 皆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiē
Middle
Chinese
‹ kɛj ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁrij/
English all

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 皆
Reading # 1/1
No. 6415
Phonetic
component
皆
Rime
group
脂
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
皆
Old
Chinese
/*kriːl/

Definitions

皆

  1. (literary) all; every; everybody
    自古皆有死  ―  zìgǔ jiē yǒu sǐ  ―  from of old, everyone is mortal (see 自古皆有死,民無信不立/自古皆有死,民无信不立 (zìgǔ jiē yǒu sǐ, mín wúxìnbùlì))
  2. (Taiwan) zetta- (SI unit prefix)
    Synonym: 泽 (mainland)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

皆

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
皆
みな
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 皆 – see the following entry.
【みな】
[noun] everyone, everybody
[noun] all, everything
(This term, 皆, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
皆
みんな
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 皆 – see the following entry.
【みんな】
[noun] everyone, everybody
[noun] all, everything
Alternative spellings
皆, 皆んな
(This term, 皆, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
皆
かい
Grade: S
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 皆 (MC kˠɛi).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka̠i]

Affix

皆(かい) • (kai) 

  1. all; every

Korean

Hanja

皆 • (gae) (hangeul 개, revised gae, McCune–Reischauer kae, Yale kay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皆: Hán Nôm readings: giai

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Zhuang

Verb

皆

  1. Sawndip form of gai (“to sell”)
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