規

規 U+898F, 規 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-898F ← 覎 [U+898E] CJK Unified Ideographs 覐 → [U+8990]

規 (Kangxi radical 147, 見+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手人月山山 (QOBUU), four-corner 5601₀, composition ⿰夫見)

• 嫢, 摫, 槻, 槼, 瞡, 窺, 規, 闚, 鬹, 𤍮

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1133, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34810
• Dae Jaweon: page 1600, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3664, character 17
• Unihan data for U+898F

Traditionally an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 夫 (“husband”) + 見 (“see”).

Smith (2011) proposes that the left component is an abbreviation of the phonetic component 癸 (OC *kʷilʔ). Compare the Shizhoupian script form of 癸.

It's possible 規 originally referred to a compass used for drawing circles given its early usage. The right half 夫 may have depicted such a compass, as evidenced by variants where it is written with a 又 (“hand”) grabbing it.

trad.		規
simp.		规
alternative forms		䂓／𰦔 槼／规 𩑬 𩒙 𩓠 䂓／𰦔 槼／规 𩑬 𩒙 𩓠 𧠹

規

1. dividers; measuring compass
2. rule; regulation; customs; law
3. to plan; to arrange
4. to exhort; to admonish; to advise
5. a surname: Gui

• (rule):

• (to plan):

• (to exhort):

trad.		規
simp.		规
alternative forms		歸／归 幾／几

Fuehrer and Yang (2014) propose that it derives from 幾 (OC *kɯl, “almost”).

規

1. (Southern Min, Taiwanese Hakka) whole; entire

trad.		規
simp.		规

規

1. Only used in 規規／规规 (guìguì).

trad.		規
simp.		规

規

1. ^‡ Alternative form of 瞁 (xù)

• “規”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. rule
2. measure
3. norm, standard
4. to regulate

• Go-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: き (ki, Jōyō)
• Kun: のり (nori, 規)、ぶんまわし (bunmawashi)、ただす (tadasu, 規す)
• Nanori: すのり (sunori)、のり (nori)、ただし (tadashi)

Kanji in this term
規
のり Grade: 5
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 規 – see the following entry.

【のり】 [noun] rule, regulation, law [noun] norm, standard [noun] measure, scale, ruler (measuring device) [noun] measure, scale, size Alternative spellings 法, 則, 矩

(This term, 規, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

規 (eumhun 법 규 (beop gyu))

1. hanja form^? of 법 (“law; rule”)

規: Hán Nôm readings: quy, qui

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.