稽 U+7A3D,稽 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A3D ←稼 [U+7A3C] CJK Unified Ideographs 稾 → [U+7A3E]

稽 (Kangxi radical 115,禾+10, 15 strokes,cangjie input竹木戈山日 (HDIUA),four-corner2396₁,composition⿰禾⿱尤旨)

• 𡃊,𡓈,𥗎,𦪼,𨯀

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 858, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25218
• Dae Jaweon: page 1283, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2622, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7A3D

Historical forms of the character稽
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Originally𩒨, aphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kiː, *kʰiːʔ): phonetic 旨(OC*kjiʔ) + semantic 頁(“person's head”).

In the modern form it is aphono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kiː, *kʰiːʔ): semantic 𥝌(“bent, stunted tree”) + semantic 尤 + phonetic 旨(OC*kjiʔ).

稽

1. (transitive) toexamine; toinvestigate; tocheck
   1. torecriminate; toargue; todispute
2. (transitive, intransitive) tokeep; toreserve
   1. todelay; toprocrastinate
3. (transitive) toreach
4. (transitive, intransitive) tosuit; tocorrespond
5. todivine

稽

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tokowtow; tobow to theground

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

(Jōyō kanji)

1. tothink; toconsider
2. totrain; topractice

• Go-on:け(ke)
• Kan-on:けい(kei,Jōyō)
• Kun:とどめる(todomeru,稽める)、かんがえる(kangaeru,稽える)

FromMiddle Chinese稽 (MC kej|khejX). Recorded asMiddle Korean계〯(kyěy) (Yale:kyey) inHunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

稽

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稽 (eumhun상고할계(sanggohal gye))

1. hanja form^? of계(“toexamine”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[2]

稽:Hán Nôm readings:kê,ghê,ghe,khẻ,khẽ,khể

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