睽

Pronunciationkuí
Five Elements
Strokes14 strokes

Basic Info

Pronunciation kuí
Five Elements
Fortune
Radical
Simplified Strokes 14 strokes
Traditional Strokes 14 strokes

Naming Meaning

Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 812
View Original Page 812
Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Eye (mù) 睽 Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 14 Page 812, Entry 44 Pronounced kui. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): Eyes not looking at one another. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Eyes lacking spirit. Liushugu (Fundamentals of the Six Writings): Turning against one another, extended to mean deviation or disagreement. Book of Changes (Yijing), Sequence of Hexagrams: Kui means deviation. Miscellaneous Hexagrams (Zagua): Kui means alienation. Also pronounced gui. Same meaning. Also, meaning different. Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Liu Zongyuan: To turn against one another and struggle. History of Song (Songshi), Biography of Shen Qi: Internal suspicion arising. Also, the appearance of eyes widened in a stare. Han Yu, Yunzhou Xitang Poetry: Wanmu kui-kui (the appearance of many eyes gazing fixedly). Also, a place name in the State of Chu. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Year 27 of Duke Xi: The Viscount of Chu sent Ziwen to drill troops at the location of Kui. Also pronounced ji. Kui-sui, the appearance of eyes widened in a stare. Wang Yanshou, Rhapsody on the Lingguang Hall of Lu (Lu Lingguang Dian Fu): Han-tiao-lao and kui-sui (describing a strange appearance with eyes widened). Note: In the Shuowen Jiezi, it is correctly written as 睽. The Juyou states it should be written differently, which is incorrect. The Zhengyun Jian states that the kui in kuigu (solitary/alienated) is written with the eye radical, the kui in kuiwei (deviation/disobedience) is written with the sun radical, and the kui in longkui (deaf and distant) is written with the ear radical. Common usage mixes them, which is incorrect. The Yuan claims that 暌 is a corrupted form of 睽, which is also incorrect.

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