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Information about character(s)

Radical:
Radical Strokes: 4
Additional Strokes: 8
Total Strokes: 12

Pronunciation

Pinyin: guǐ
Cantonese: gwai2
JapaneseKun: KAGE
JapaneseOn: KI
Korean: KWI

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: shadows of sun; time; sundial

CE-Dict: sundial

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.shadows caused by the sun
2.a sundial
3.time

朗道漢英字典 - Lang Dao: a shadow cast by the sun; time

懶蟲簡明漢英詞典: a shadow cast by the sun; time

說文解字 - Shuowen: 《日部》晷 日景也。从日咎聲。

康熙字典文字版 【辰集上】【日字部】 晷
【唐韻】居洧切【集韻】【韻會】矩鮪切【正韻】古委切,𠀤音軌。【說文】日景也。【博雅】晷,柱景也。【釋名】晷,規也。如規畫也。【玉篇】以表度日也。【前漢·天文志】去極遠近難知,要以晷景。晷景者,所以知日之南北也。【正字通】晷者,歷數所自出。其法:望高處爲體,立長短二竿爲用,二竿與高齊等,度三物兩閒修短若干,句股而求之,寒暑短長暸然自見。从咎何也,日景有差也,天行有常,不能不小有贏縮,歲差由此生,故立日景以測之,卽《周禮·考工記》置槷眡景之法也。 又【韻補】叶果許切。【陸雲詩】願登扶桑,仰結飛晷。伊人匪存,遺芳孰與。 又叶已有切。【王延壽·魯靈光殿賦】蔥翠紫蔚,礧碨瓌瑋含光晷兮。窮奇極妙,棟宇以來未之有兮。

CF-Dict: gnomon d'un cadran solaire/ombre/temps

Han-De-Dict: Sonnenuhr (u.E.) (S)