彗

彗 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手十尸一 (QJSM), four-corner 5517₄, composition ⿱⿰丰丰𫜹 or ⿱⿰丰丰⺕)

• 慧, 嘒, 暳, 𦄑, 槥, 慧, 熭, 䨮, 鏏

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9927
• Dae Jaweon: page 680, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 961, character 10
• Unihan data for U+5F57

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sɢʷeds, *ɢʷeds, *sɢʷids) : 甡 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – to hold a broom which is made of bamboo.

Sagart (2021) modifies Baxter and Sagart's (2014) reconstruction to *sə-m-pʰˤut-s, deriving it from a root *pʰˤut (“dust”), with the iambic form of the prefix *s-, which derives circumstantial nouns, and the prefix *m-, which derives verbs of volitional action from nouns, and relates it to 勃 (OC *bɯːd) and 孛 (OC *bɯːds, *bɯːd).

彗

1. (literary) broom
2. ^† comet
3. ^† to sweep; to brush

彗

1. Alternative form of 熭 (wèi)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. comet
2. broom

   Synonym: 篲

3. to sweep

From Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zwijH); compare Mandarin 彗 (suì, huì):

• Go-on: ずい (zui)^{←ずい (zui, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui)^{←すい (sui, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zjwejH):

• Go-on: ぜい (zei)^{←ぜい (zei, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei)^{←せい (sei, historical)}

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: はく (haku, 彗く); ほうき (hōki, 彗)

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading, by analogy with 慧. The original readings are 수 (su) and 세 (se) based on Middle Chinese 彗 (MC zwijH|zjwejH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [çe̞(ː)] ~ [he̞(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul: [혜(ː)/헤(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Wikisource 彗 (eumhun 살별 혜 (salbyeol hye))

1. Hanja form^? of 혜 (“comet”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

彗: Hán Nôm readings: tuệ

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