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委

委

Translingual

Han character

委 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木女 (HDV), four-corner 20404, composition ⿱禾女)

  1. appoint, send, commission

References

  • KangXi: page 259, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6181
  • Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1038, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+59D4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 委

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 委
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (委) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
矮 *qraːlʔ
躷 *qraːlʔ
捼 *noːl, *nuːl, *njul
倭 *qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol
涹 *qoːl
踒 *qoːl
餧 *nuːlʔ, *qrols
諉 *nols, *qrolʔ
痿 *njol, *qrol
萎 *qrol, *qrols
逶 *qrol
覣 *qrol
蜲 *qrol, *qrolʔ
委 *qrol, *qrolʔ
緌 *njul

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 委
Mandarin Beijing /uei²¹⁴/
Harbin /uei²¹³/
Tianjin /vei¹³/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vəʔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /uei⁵³/
Xining /uɨ⁵³/
Yinchuan /vei⁵³/
Lanzhou /vei⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vei⁵¹/
Wuhan /uei⁴²/
Chengdu /uei⁵³/
Guiyang /uei⁴²/
Kunming /uei⁵³/
Nanjing /uəi²¹²/
Hefei /ue²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vei⁵³/
Pingyao /uei⁵³/
Hohhot /vei⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ue³⁵/
Suzhou /ue̞⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔui⁵³/
Wenzhou /v̠u³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ue³⁵/
Tunxi /ue²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /uəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /vi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vui²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wai³⁵/
Nanning /wɐi³⁵/
Hong Kong /wai³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ui⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uoi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ui⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ui²¹³/
Rime
Character 委 委
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (14) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie 於爲切 於詭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiuᴇ/ /ʔˠiuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷᵚiɛ/ /ʔʷᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɛ/ /ʔiuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjwiə̆/ /ʔjwiə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjue/ /ʔjueX/
Wang
Li		 /ǐwe/ /ǐweX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔwie̯/ /ʔwie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wēi wěi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 委 委 委 委
Reading # 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wēi wěi wěi wěi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwe › ‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*q(r)oj/ /*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)orʔ/
English 委蛇 compliant, complaisant entrust to collect; store bend; hang down

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 委 委
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12901 12903
Phonetic
component		 委 委
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 逶 委
Old
Chinese		 /*qrol/ /*qrolʔ/
Notes 小徐禾聲

Definitions

委

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Japanese

Kanji

委

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. committee

Readings

Korean

Hanja

委 • ‎(wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune-Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

  1. put in charge of, commmission
  2. give up
  3. petty

Vietnamese

Han character

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