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宜

宜

See also: 冝

Translingual

Han character

宜 (radical 40 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十月一 (JBM), four-corner 30107, composition ⿱宀且)

References

  • KangXi: page 284, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7111
  • Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 920, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+5B9C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宜
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (多) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
多 *ʔl'aːl
哆 *ʔl'aːlʔ, *ʔl'aːls, *ʔr'aːls, *hr'aːl, *l̥ʰjaːlʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *l̥ʰjɯs
跢 *ʔl'aːls, *ʔl'aːds
痑 *ʔl'aːls, *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːn
爹 *daːʔ, *tjaː
陊 *l'aːlʔ, *l'alʔ
橠 *naːlʔ
袲 *naːlʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *lal
奓 *ʔr'aːl, *ʔr'aːls
栘 *ɦljeːl, *lal
黟 *ʔleːl, *ʔlil
趍 *sʰlo, *l'al
誃 *l'al, *l̥ʰjalʔ
簃 *l'al, *lal
眵 *ʔljjal, *l̥ʰjal
恀 *ʔljalʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *ɦljalʔ
侈 *l̥ʰjalʔ
姼 *l̥ʰjalʔ, *ɦljal, *ɦljalʔ
鉹 *l̥ʰjalʔ, *lal
垑 *l̥ʰjalʔ
袳 *l̥ʰjalʔ
卶 *l̥ʰjals, *hljals
宜 *ŋral
誼 *ŋrals
竩 *ŋrals
移 *lal
迻 *lal
扅 *lal
拸 *lal, *lalʔ
熪 *lal
謻 *lal
蛥 *ɢljad

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 宜
Mandarin Beijing /i³⁵/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i⁴²/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /ni²⁴/
Xining /ji²¹³/
Yinchuan /i⁵³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /i²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵi³¹/
/i³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/ 老
/i²¹/ 新
Kunming /ni³¹/
Nanjing /i²⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /i¹¹/
Pingyao /i¹³/
Hohhot /i³¹/
/i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ȵi¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi³¹/
Hui Shexian /ni⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ȵi⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ȵi¹³/
Xiangtan /ȵi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ȵi⁴⁵/ ～春市
/i⁰/ 便～
Hakka Meixian /ŋi¹¹/
Taoyuan /ŋi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ji²¹/
Nanning /ni²¹/
Hong Kong /ji²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋie⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋi²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋĩ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋi³¹/
/zi³¹/
Rime
Character 宜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 魚羈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ŋje/
Wang
Li		 /ŋǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宜 宜
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yí yí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngje › ‹ ngje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ(r)aj/ /*ŋ(r)aj/
English sacrifice to the deity of the soil (K) proper; should

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 宜
Reading # 1/1
No. 2677
Phonetic
component		 多
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 宜
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋral/
Notes 說文多省聲，古文從多。甲金文象俎加多，多本象重肉，亦聲

Adjective

宜

  1. appropriate, suitable, proper

Adverb

宜

  1. should

Proper noun

宜

  1. A surname​.

References

  • “宜”, in MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ) (in Mandarin/English), accessed 2014-03-11

Japanese

Kanji

宜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. best regards

Readings

Korean

Hanja

宜 • ‎(ui) (hangeul 의, revised ui, McCune-Reischauer ŭi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宜 (nghi, ngơi, nghe)

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