gāi
should
Phonosemantic compound. 言 represents the meaning and 亥 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[k]ˤə | koj | gāi | all, complete |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.6636% of movies
95th most common character in movies
319th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8A72 |
Shuowen | “該,軍中約也。从言,亥聲。讀若‘心中滿該’。” |
Sources
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