駃騠

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (駃騠)		駃	騠
simp. (𫘝𫘨)		𫘝	𫘨

Etymology

Pulleyblank (1962) proposes a Yeniseian origin; he compares it to Ket [script needed] (kus), Kott [Term?] (huś), Pumpokol [Term?] (kut) ~ kus, all descending from Proto-Yeniseian *kuʔs (“horse”).

Schuessler (2007) notes similarity to Tocharian B yakwe (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): juétí

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄊㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kyut³ tai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: juétí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄩㄝˊ ㄊㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jyuétí
    • Wade–Giles: chüeh²-tʻi²
    • Yale: jywé-tí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyuetyi
    • Palladius: цзюэти (czjueti)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕy̯ɛ³⁵ tʰi³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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      edit edit 駃騠／𫘝𫘨 決堤／决堤

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: kyut³ tai⁴
    • Yale: kyut tàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kyt⁸ tai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: küd³ tei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰyːt̚³ tʰɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kwet dej

Rime
Character	駃	騠
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	屑 (88)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	古穴切	杜奚切
Baxter	kwet	dej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kwet̚/	/dei/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷet̚/	/dei/
Shao Rongfen	/kuɛt̚/	/dɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwɛt̚/	/dɛj/
Li Rong	/kuet̚/	/dei/
Wang Li	/kiwet̚/	/diei/
Bernard Karlgren	/kiwet̚/	/dʱiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jue	tí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gyut3	tai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʷeːd  deː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	駃	騠
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	4421	11629
Phonetic component	夬	是
Rime group	月	支
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	玦	嗁
Old Chinese	/*kʷeːd/	/*deː/

Noun

駃騠

1. (literary) hinny
2. (historical) a kind of steed

   • 其畜之所多則馬、牛、羊，其奇畜則橐駞、驢、驘、駃騠、騊駼、驒騱。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     其畜之所多则马、牛、羊，其奇畜则橐驼、驴、骡、𫘝𫘨、𫘦𬳿、𱅛𫘬。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Qí xù zhī suǒ duō zé mǎ, niú, yáng, qí qí xù zé luòtuó, lǘ, luó, juétí, táotú, tuóxí. [Pinyin]

     Their (the Xiongnu's) livestock are mainly horses, oxen, and sheep; their peculiar livestock are camels, donkeys, mules, jueti, taotu, and tuoxi.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 驢騾 (“hinny”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		驢騾, 駃騠
Mandarin	Harbin	驢騾
	Yantai (Muping)	驢騾子
	Jinan	驢騾, 驢騾子
	Luoyang	驢騾
	Wanrong	驢騾子
	Xi'an	驢騾
	Yinchuan	驢騾子
	Lanzhou	驢騾
	Xining	驢騾
	Ürümqi	驢騾子
	Chengdu	驢騾
	Nanjing	驢騾
	Sokuluk (Gansu Dungan)	驢騾子
Jin	Taiyuan	驢騾
	Xinzhou	驢騾
Southern Min	Xiamen	驢駝

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (駃騠):

• → Japanese: 駃騠(けってい) (kettei)
• → Korean: 결제(駃騠) (gyeolje), 쾌제(駃騠) (kwaeje)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
駃	騠
けつ > けっ Hyōgaiji	てい Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) けってー [kèttéé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ke̞t̚te̞ː]

• • Homophone: 決定

Noun

駃(けっ)騠(てい) or 駃騠(ケッテイ) • (kettei) 

1. a hinny (hybrid offspring of a male horse and a female donkey)

See also

• 驢(ロ)馬(バ) (roba, “donkey”)
• 騾(ラ)馬(バ) (raba, “mule”)