Character: 刈
Modern (Beijing) reading: yì
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋats
Classic Old Chinese: ŋać
Western Han Chinese: ŋaś
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋaś
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋaś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋǝ̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋǝ̀j
Middle Chinese: ŋǝ̀j
English meaning : to cut, mow, reap; control, regulate, govern
Russian meaning[s]: 1) косить; жать; срезать; серп; коса; 2) убивать
Shuowen gloss: 芟草也.從****相交.刈或從刀. [627]
Comments: Also written as ヾ without the knife radical; sometimes also written in Shijing as 艾 (q.v.). For *ŋ cf. Xiamen ŋai6, Chaozhou ŋai4, Fuzhou ŋie6, Jianou ŋi6.
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2900
Karlgren code: 0347 a-b
Go-on: ge
Kan-on: gai
Japanese reading: ge;gai;karu;osameru;osamaru
Shijing occurrences: 2.2, 9.2, 9.3
