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倪

倪

倪 U+502A, 倪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-502A
← 倩
[U+5029] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倫 →
[U+502B]

Translingual

Han character

倪 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人竹X山 (OHXU), four-corner 27217, composition ⿰亻兒)

References

  • KangXi: page 109, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 792
  • Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 179, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+502A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倪

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倪
Large seal script

L02269

L02270
Small seal script

s05811
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (兒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
掜 *rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
誽 *rŋeː
倪 *ŋeː
蜺 *ŋeː, *ŋeː
霓 *ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳 *ŋeː
齯 *ŋeː
婗 *ŋeː
輗 *ŋeː
棿 *ŋeː
猊 *ŋeː
麑 *ŋeː
貎 *ŋeː
鯢 *ŋeː
兒 *ŋeː, *ŋje
觬 *ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ
堄 *ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs
晲 *ŋeːʔ
睨 *ŋeːs
唲 *ŋje
隉 *ŋeːd
鶂 *ŋeːɡ
鬩 *ɦŋeːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋeː) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 兒 ‎(OC *ŋeː, *ŋje).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 五稽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋei/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋei/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɛj/
Li
Rong		 /ŋei/
Wang
Li		 /ŋiei/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ní
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngej ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋˤe/
English young and weak

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 倪
Reading # 1/1
No. 2736
Phonetic
component		 兒
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 倪
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋeː/

Definitions

倪

  1. †small child
  2. †small and weak
  3. †origin; beginning
  4. †bound; limit; extremity
  5. † to differentiate
  6. (Wu) I; we
  7. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 俾倪
  • 天倪
  • 旄倪

Japanese

Kanji

倪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

倪 • ‎(ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倪 (nghê, hầu)

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