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羿

羿

Translingual

Han character

羿 (radical 124 羽+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸一廿 (SMT), four-corner 17442)

References

  • KangXi: page 955, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28625
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1400, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3342, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7FBF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 羿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幵) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
笄 *kŋeː
枅 *kŋeː
蚈 *kŋeː, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
羿 *ŋeːs
栞 *ŋ̥ʰaːn
雃 *ŋaːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
詽 *ŋreːn, *tŋ̥ʰeːn
揅 *ŋeːn
幵 *kŋeːn
鳽 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣 *kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉 *kŋeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːn
趼 *kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧 *ŋ̥ʰeːn, *ŋ̥ʰeːns
岍 *ŋ̥ʰeːn
研 *ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍 *ŋeːn
訮 *hŋeːn
鈃 *ɡeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋeːs) : semantic 羽 + phonetic 幵 ‎(OC *kŋeːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 羿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 五計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋeiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋeiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋɛiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɛjH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋeiH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋieiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋieiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 羿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngejH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ˤer-s/
English (name of legendary archer)

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 羿
Reading # 1/1
No. 6155
Phonetic
component		 幵
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 詣
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋeːs/
Notes 說文幵聲隸省變

Definitions

羿

  1. (historical) the name of a legendary archer (also called 后羿)
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 后羿射日

Japanese

Kanji

羿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Vietnamese

Han character

羿 (nghệ)

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