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易

易

See also: 昜

Translingual

Han character

易 (radical 72 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日心竹竹 (APHH), four-corner 60227, composition ⿱日勿)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 492, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 854, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1494, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6613

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 易

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 易
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (易) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
賜 *sleːɡs
儩 *sleɡs
舓 *ɦljeʔ
易 *leːɡs, *leɡ
敡 *leɡs
鬄 *sljeɡ
睗 *hljeɡ
晹 *hljeɡ
痬 *leɡ
蜴 *leɡ
埸 *leɡ
逷 *l̥ʰeːɡ
剔 *l̥ʰeːɡ
踢 *tʰeːɡ
惕 *l̥ʰeːɡ
錫 *sleːɡ
裼 *sleːɡ
緆 *sleːɡ

Oracle bone and bronze inscriptions: original form of 賜 (OC *sleːɡs, “to confer, to bestow”); specialised from 益 (OC *qleɡ, “to benefit”).

Shuowen: pictogram (象形) , original form of 蜴 (OC *leɡ, “lizard”).

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 易
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊益切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /iɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 易
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lek/
English change; exchange

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 易
Reading # 2/2
No. 15034
Phonetic
component		 易
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 繹
Old
Chinese		 /*leɡ/
Notes 甲文象斟酒，表易器而賜

Definitions

易

  1. to exchange; to interchange
  2. to change; to alter; to modify
  3. Short for 易經／易经 (Yìjīng, “I Ching”).
  4. A surname​.

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 易
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以豉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ieH/
Wang
Li		 /jǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 易
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lek-s/
English easy

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 易
Reading # 1/2
No. 15029
Phonetic
component		 易
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 易
Old
Chinese		 /*leːɡs/

Definitions

易

  1. easy; simple; not difficult
  2. gentle; kind
  3. effortless; prone to
  4. easily; effortlessly

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

易

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Noun

易 ‎(hiragana えき, romaji eki)

  1. divination
  2. fortune-telling

Synonyms

Korean

Hanja

易 • ‎(yeok, i) (hangeul 역, 이, revised yeok, i, McCune-Reischauer yŏk, i, Yale yek, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

易 (dịch, dể, dễ, di, diệc, dẻ, dẹ, dị, dịu, rẻ, rể)

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