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夷

夷

Translingual

Han character

夷 (radical 37 大+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大弓 (KN) or X大弓 (XKN), four-corner 50032, composition ⿻大弓)

  1. an ancient tribe in southwest China
  2. Eastern foreigner

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 249, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5852
  • Dae Jaweon: page 509, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 527, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+5937

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 夷

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 夷
Mandarin Beijing /i³⁵/
Harbin /i²⁴/
Tianjin /i⁴⁵/
Jinan /i⁴²/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /i²⁴/
Xining /ji²¹³/
Yinchuan /i⁵³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i⁵¹/
Wuhan /i²¹³/
Chengdu /i³¹/
Guiyang /i²¹/
Kunming /i³¹/
Nanjing /i²⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /i¹¹/
Pingyao /i¹³/
Hohhot /i³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ji³¹/
Hui Shexian /i⁴⁴/
Tunxi /i⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /i¹³/
Xiangtan /i¹²/
Gan Nanchang /i⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /i¹¹/
Taoyuan /ʒï¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ji²¹/
Nanning /ji²¹/
Hong Kong /ji²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /i³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /i⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /i²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /i⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /zi³¹/
Rime
Character 夷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以脂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ji/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ji/
Li
Rong		 /i/
Wang
Li		 /ji/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 夷 夷
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yí yí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yij › ‹ yij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ləj/ /*ləj/
English level, peaceful foreigner (especially to the east)

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 夷
Reading # 1/1
No. 14862
Phonetic
component		 夷
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 姨
Old
Chinese		 /*lil/

Noun

夷

  1. barbarian

Japanese

Kanji

夷

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 蝦夷 (えみし, emishi; えみす, emisu; えびす, ebisu; えぞ, ezo)

Korean

Hanja

夷 • ‎(i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

夷 (di, dì, dai, gì, rợ)

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Etymology

Historical forms of the character 夷
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (夷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
桋 *l'iːl, *lil
荑 *l'iːl, *lil
銕 *l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
鴺 *l'iːl, *lil
鮧 *l'iːl, *lil
洟 *l̥ʰiːls, *lil
羠 *ljilʔ, *lil
咦 *hril
夷 *lil
姨 *lil
痍 *lil
峓 *lil
恞 *lil
眱 *lil
蛦 *lil
胰 *lil, *lɯ
跠 *lil

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 大 ‎(“big”) + 弓 ‎(“bow”).

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