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Chinese Text Project

U+594E

Seal script

Jinwen

Semantic variant

Semantic variant

Radical:+ 6 strokes = 9 strokes total.
References:Guangyun: p.92#8 Kangxi: p.251#11 Cihai: p.371r6c01 GSR: 879.i Hanyu: v1,p0538#01
Composition:Top: , bottom: . Component of: 𠝥 𡙔 𪶙 𤧊 𭦭 𪑭
Mandarin:kuí ㄎㄨㄟˊ
Cantonese:fui1 kwai1
Shuowen:大部》奎:兩髀之閒。从大圭聲。
Guangyun:廣韻·上平聲··》奎:星名。
Kangxi:康熙字典·大部·》奎:《廣韻》苦圭切《集韻》《韻會》傾畦切,𠀤音睽。《說文》兩𩩙之閒。又星名,二十八宿之一。《天文志》西方十六星𧰼兩𩩙,故亦曰奎。《禮·月令》中春日在奎,季夏旦奎中。《宋史·天文志》太祖乾德五年丁卯,五星聚奎。《孝經·援神契》奎主文昌。《春秋·合誠圖》奎主武庫。《前漢·天文志》奎曰封豨,主溝瀆。《後漢·蘇竟傳》奎爲毒螫,主庫兵。又《集韻》苦委切,音跪。奎踽,舉足行貌。又犬繠切,音䞨。與䠑同。
考證:〔《禮·月令》季夏奎旦中。〕謹照原文改旦奎中。
Fanqie:苦圭 (《廣韻·上平聲··》)
Unihan definition:stride of man; one of the twenty-eight lunar mansions

Example usage

莊子·徐無鬼》:擇疏鬣,自以為廣宮大囿,蹄曲隈,乳閒股腳,自以為安室利處,不知屠者之一旦鼓臂、布草、操煙火,而己與豕俱焦也。
The lice select a place where the bristles are more wide apart, and look on it as a great palace or a large park. The slits between the toes, the overlappings of its skin, about its nipples and its thighs - all these seem to them safe apartments and advantageous places - they do not know that the butcher one morning, swinging about his arms, will spread the grass, and kindle the fire, so that they and the pig will be roasted together.
禮記·月令》:仲春之月,日在,昏弧中,旦建星中。
說苑·辨物》:所謂二十八星者:東方曰角亢氐房心尾箕,北方曰斗牛須女虛危營室東壁,西方曰婁胃昂畢觜參,南方曰東井輿鬼柳七星張翼軫。
韓非子·飾邪》:初時者魏數年東鄉攻盡陶、衛,數年西鄉以失其國,此非豐隆、五行、太一、王相、攝提、六神、五括、天河、殷搶、歲星非數年在西也,又非天缺、弧逆、刑星、熒惑、台非數年在東也。
淮南子·時則訓》:季夏之月,招搖指未,昏心中,旦中,其位中央,其日戊己,盛德在土,其蟲嬴,其音宮,律中百鍾,其數五,其味甘,其臭香,其祀中霤,祭先心。
呂氏春秋·有始》:西北曰幽天,其星東壁、、婁。
史記·律書》:北至於
越絕書》:魯故治太山、東溫、周固水,今魏東,、婁也。
漢書》:又填星不避歲星者,后帝共政,相留於、婁,當以義斷之。
前漢紀·高后紀》:婁。
後漢書·天文中》:二年正月乙卯,金、木俱在,丙寅,水又在
焦氏易林·訟之》:蒙:軫溫湯,過角宿房。
京氏易傳·䷱鼎》:五星從位起鎮星,宿從位降辛亥水,分氣候三十六,火居木上,二氣交合。
說文解字·大部》::兩髀之閒。
爾雅·釋天》:降婁,婁也。
黃帝內經》:所謂戊己分者,壁角軫,則天地之門戶也。
通典·享司寒》:春分之中,婁在東方。
西遊記》:角亢氐房為總領,婁胃昴慣翻騰。
三國演義》:北方七面皂旗,按斗,牛,女,虛,危,室,壁,作玄武之勢:西方七面白旗,按,婁,冑,昴,畢,觜,參,踞白虎之威。
封神演義》:──縣中鎮守主將張
廣韻·》:又音
太平御覽·天部上》:西北幽天,其星婁。
太平廣記·何奎》:偽王蜀時,閬州人何,不知何術。
朱子語類·論道教》:西方、婁狀似虎,故曰白虎。
紅樓夢》:走至元妃寢宮,只見壁輝煌,琉璃照耀。
全唐詩》:遺墟當少昊,懸象逼婁。
康熙字典·》:又《爾雅·釋天》降婁,婁也。

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