己

己 (Kangxi radical 49, 己+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 尸山 (SU), four-corner 1771₇, composition ⿳𠃍一乚)

1. Kangxi radical #49, ⼰.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №518

• Appendix:Chinese radical/己
• 𠯇, 圮, 妃, 𭒼, 屺, 忋, 𢩵, 𣲆, 𣅗, 杞, 𬉺, 玘, 𥐦, 䄫, 𬡆, 紀(纪), 記(记), 起, 𨊲, 配, 𨥈, 𮧷, 魢(鱾), 𩾩
• 邔, 妀, 改, 𣢇, 䪱, 𩾠, 𠮯, 㞯, 异, 忌, 𤆔, 岂, 芑, 𥫟, 䨽, 𩫻, 㽶, 𠃚
• 包 (Japanese form)

• こ (Hiragana character derived from man'yōgana)
• コ (Katakana character derived from man'yōgana)

Wikisource

• KangXi: page 326, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8742
• Dae Jaweon: page 630, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 983, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5DF1

己 (*kɨ) (Nihon shoki 基 or 紀)

1. walled settlement

   Synonyms: 忽 (hwər), サシ (casI)

• → Old Japanese: 城 (ki₂)
  • Japanese: 城 (ki)

• John Bentley (2000), “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon shoki”, in Language Research‎, volume 36, issue 2, Seoul National University, pages 417—443
• Alexander Vovin (2005), “Koguryo and Paekche: Different Languages or Dialects of Old Korean?”, in Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies, volume 2, issue 2, Koguryo Research Foundation, pages 108—140
• Alexander Vovin (2013), “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎, volume 15, issue 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 222—240

Historical forms of the character 己
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) – silk rope for binding objects. Original form of 紀 (OC *kɯʔ). The character must not be confused with 已 and 巳.

Unknown (Schuessler, 2007).

己

1. self; oneself
2. personal; private
3. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems
4. a surname

• (heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁, 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Heavenly stems)}

• → Zhuang: geij

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. itself, oneself

• Go-on: こ (ko, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: おのれ (onore, 己, Jōyō); おの (ono, 己); おら (ora, 己); おれ (ore, 己); つちのと (tsuchinoto, 己)
• Nanori: おと (oto); な (na); み (mi)

Used in the Man'yōshū (c. 759 CE) as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨i⟩, ⟨ko₂⟩, and ⟨go₂⟩.

From Middle Chinese 己 (MC kɨX).

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

己(き) • (Ki) 

1. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernym: 十干 (Jikkan)

• 己巳(きし) (Kishi)

Originally a compound of 土 (tsuchi, “earth”, one of the Chinese five elements) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 弟 (oto, “younger brother”).

• (Tokyo) つちの​と [tsùchínóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝt͡ɕino̞to̞]

己(つちのと) • (Tsuchinoto) 

1. the sixth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernym: 十干 (Jikkan)

From 己 (ono, reflexive or first-person pronoun, see below) +‎ れ (re, “thing”, demonstrative nominalizer ending).

• (Tokyo) おのれ [ònóré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [o̞no̞ɾe̞]

己(おのれ) • (onore) 

1. reflexive pronoun: oneself
2. first-person pronoun: I, me
3. second-person pronoun: you (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonyms: お前 (omae), 貴様 (kisama)

己(おのれ) • (onore) 

1. by oneself

   Synonyms: 自然に (shizen ni), 独りでに (hitori de ni)

己(おのれ) • (onore) 

1. An interjection expressing anger or chagrin

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

己(おの) • (ono) 

1. reflexive pronoun: oneself
2. first-person pronoun: I, me

   Synonyms: 私 (watakushi), 我 (ware)

• (Tokyo) おれ [òré] (Heiban – [0])[1]
• IPA^(key): [o̞ɾe̞]

己(おれ) • (ore) 

1. Alternative spelling of 俺 (ore): first-person pronoun: I, me

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

己(おら) • (ora) 

1. first-person pronoun: I, me

Sound shift from ono (see above).[1]

• 汝

• (Tokyo) うぬ [ùnú] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) う​ぬ [úꜜnù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɯ̟ᵝnɯ̟ᵝ]

• Pronunciation for pronoun senses unknown.

己(うぬ) • (unu) 

1. second-person pronoun: you
2. reflexive pronoun: oneself

   Synonym: 自分自身 (jibun-jishin)

• 己(うぬ)等(ら) (unura)

己(うぬ) • (unu) 

1. (vulgar) you!; you blockhead!

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

己(うら) • (ura) 

1. first-person pronoun: I, me

Sound shift from onore (see above).[1]

己(おどれ) • (odore) 

1. second-person pronoun: you

   Synonyms: 己 (unu), 貴様 (kisama)

己 (eumhun 자기 기 (jagi gi))

1. Hanja form^? of 기 (“self”).

己: Hán Nôm readings: kỷ, kỉ, kỳ

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