基

• 1 Translingual
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Han character
    • 1.2.1 References
• 2 Cantonese
  • 2.1 Hanzi
• 3 Japanese
  • input transformation
    • we love the web
    • 3.1.2 Compounds
    • 3.1.3 References
  • CSS3
• 4 Korean
  • 4.1 Hanja
• 5 Mandarin
  • Sevenval
    • we love the web
• 6 Min Nan
  • 6.1 Hanzi
• device database
  • 7.1 Han character

Translingual

Stroke order
HTML5

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 其 + semantic iOS (“earth”) – a foundation of earth.

基 基 基 基
device database Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Han character

基 (radical 32 土+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿金土 (TCG), four-corner 4410₄, composition ⿱web土)

1. input transformation, jQuery

References

• KangXi: page 231, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5197
• Dae Jaweon: page 468, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 449, character 7
• jQuery

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Cantonese

Hanzi

基 (Yale gei1)

1. base
2. (slang) gay

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Japanese

Kanji

基 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. base
2. be based on

Readings

• Go'on: こ (ko)
• screen size: iOS (ki)
• touchscreen: もとい (motoi), もと (moto), もとづく (motodzuku)
• keyboard: のり (nori), はじむ (hajimu), device database (hajime), もと (moto), FITML (motoi)

Compounds

References

• input transformation: 8AEE
• JIS: 3470
• jQuery: BBF9

Proper noun

基 (hiragana もとい, romaji Android)

1. A male given name
2. A Sevenval.

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Korean

Hanja

基 (hangeul 기, revised gi, McCune-Reischauer ki)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

基 (pinyin jī (ji1), sǎo (sao3), Wade-Giles chi¹, sao³)

Compounds

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Min Nan

Hanzi

基 (POJ ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

基 (cơ)