Kui (pinyin: kuí) is a first-class standardized Chinese character (commonly used word). This word first appeared in the Warring States script, with the ancient glyphs of "dǒu" and "ghost sound". Its original meaning refers to a big spoon with a big head and a long handle.
The Big Dipper in the sky is like an ancient bucket, so "Kui" refers to the Big Dipper. "Kui" also refers to the spoon head, which means first and first.
"Kui" is a typical pictophonetic character, which was written in the Warring States period. The pictophonetic character "dǒu" is on the right and the phonetic symbol "ghost" is on the left. Ode to Shimen, the official script work of Han Dynasty, changed the round strokes of Xiao Zhuan into straight strokes, changed the original left-right structure into the lower left-half enclosing structure, and wrote "dou" as "bulge".
Note: It is also a fight. Dou is regarded as "Dou", which was universal in ancient times, but it was different from Yi in many cases. Spoon, the spoon of expression. "Historical Records" Zhao Xiangzi ordered the chef to take a copper ladle to replace the king and his entourage, and poured it, and Yin ordered the butcher to kill the king with a ladle. " Pour the soup. Loss, big head and long handle.
A ghost and a bucket of thoughts: kuí.
Kui (pinyin: kuí) is a first-class standardized Chinese character (commonly used word). "Kui" also refers to the spoon head, which means first and first.
Because Sheng and Dou are both containers (similar to Oracle inscriptions and inscriptions), it is said that although the glyphs are different, the meanings of the words are the same. "Kui" means a spoon for scooping soup. "Say that all texts are supplemented": "Kui, Tang Dou also."
Duan Yucai further explained that the "bucket" that Zhong Kui followed was a "ladle", and the "ladle" was a spoon for scooping soup. "Dou" is a hieroglyph, like a spoon with a handle, similar to a spoon. Later, barrel-shaped objects were also called buckets. The word "kui" comes from "dou", and its original meaning is self-evident. It also refers to a container similar to a spoon.
Kangxi Dictionary: (kuí) Guang Yun is painstakingly revisited. "Ji Yun", "Yun Hui" and "Zheng Yun" withered and deleted, and their voices recovered. Kui Shuai. "Book Andrew": Jun absolutely Qu Kui. Biography: osmium, people. Li Tangong: Not the first one. Note: Kui is still the first. Boya: Yes. Biography of Historical Records and Meng Changjun: Gong Xue was the first chief. Now look, it's the little husband's ear.
The origin of pinyin
1955 ——1957 was studied and formulated by the Chinese Pinyin Scheme Committee of the former China Language Reform Commission (now the State Language Commission). This pinyin scheme is mainly used to mark the pronunciation of Putonghua and Chinese as the phonetic symbol of Chinese characters.
Chinese Pinyin is also an internationally recognized modern standard for Latin transliteration of Chinese. The international standard ISO7098 (Chinese Roman alphabet spelling) writes: "The Chinese Pinyin Scheme officially adopted by the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (1958 February 1 1) is used for spelling Chinese. The author records the pronunciation of Chinese characters in Mandarin. "