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揖

揖

Translingual

Han character

揖 (radical 64 手+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 手口尸十 (QRSJ), four-corner 56041, composition ⿰扌咠)

  1. salute, bow
  2. defer to, yield

References

  • KangXi: page 442, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12351
  • Dae Jaweon: page 793, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1916, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+63D6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 揖

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (咠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
楫 *ʔseb
檝 *ʔseb, *zib
湒 *ʔsib
咠 *ʔsib, *sʰib
葺 *ʔsib, *sʰib, *zib
緝 *sʰib
諿 *sʰib
輯 *zib
箿 *zib
蕺 *ʔsrib
戢 *ʔsrib
濈 *ʔsrib
霵 *ʔsrib, *zrib
揖 *qib

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 揖
Mandarin Beijing /i³⁵/
Harbin /i⁴⁴/
Tianjin /i²¹/
Jinan /i²¹³/
Qingdao /i⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /i²⁴/
Xi'an /i²¹/
Xining /ji⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i¹³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /i²¹³/
Chengdu /i³¹/
Guiyang /i²¹/
Kunming /i³¹/
Nanjing /iʔ⁵/
Hefei /iəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /iʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /i³¹/
Wu Shanghai /iɪʔ⁵/
Suzhou /iəʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /ʔiəʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /j̠ai²¹³/
Hui Shexian /iʔ²¹/
Tunxi /i⁵/
Xiang Changsha /i²⁴/
Xiangtan /i²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /iʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ia⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jɐp̚⁵/
Nanning /jɐp̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jɐp̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ip̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /i²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ip̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ip̚⁵/
Rime
Character 揖
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 伊入切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔjep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔip̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 揖 揖
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jí yī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsip › ‹ ʔjip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s.qrip/ (dialect: MC tsr- > ts-) /*qip/
English cluster together bow (v.), salute

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 揖
Reading # 1/1
No. 10170
Phonetic
component		 咠
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 揖
Old
Chinese		 /*qib/

Definitions

揖

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Compounds

  • 三揖
  • 三揖三讓／三揖三让
  • 作揖 (zuòyī)
  • 張揖／张揖
  • 打恭作揖
  • 打躬作揖
  • 拜揖
  • 拱手作揖
  • 拱揖
  • 揖客
  • 揖揖
  • 揖讓／揖让
  • 羅圈兒揖／罗圈儿揖
  • 聳揖／耸揖
  • 長揖／长揖
  • 開門揖盜／开门揖盗

References

Japanese

Kanji

揖

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

揖 • ‎(eup, jeup) (hangeul 읍, 즙, revised eup, jeup, McCune-Reischauer ŭp, chŭp, Yale up, cup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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