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Translingual

Han character

(radical 141 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜心尸一 (YPSM), four-corner 21211)

  1. cruel, harsh, oppressive
  2. abuse

References

  • KangXi: page 1073, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32678
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1540, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2820, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8650

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ŋawɢ
*ŋawɢ
*hŋawɢ

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /nyɛ⁵¹/
Harbin /iau⁵³/
/nyɛ⁵³/
Tianjin /niɑu⁵³/
/nye⁵³/
Jinan /yə²¹/
Qingdao /yə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /yo²⁴/
Xi'an /yo²¹/
Xining /ȵyu²⁴/
Yinchuan /nye¹³/
Lanzhou /yə¹³/
/miə¹³/
Ürümqi /yɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /nio²¹³/
Chengdu /nyo³¹/
Guiyang /nio²¹/
Kunming /nio³¹/
Nanjing /loʔ⁵/
Hefei /lyɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /ȵyʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /niaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /ȵiaʔ¹/
Suzhou /ȵiɑʔ³/
Hangzhou /ȵiɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /ȵa²¹³/
Hui Shexian /niɔ²²/
Tunxi /ȵio¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵio²⁴/
Xiangtan /ȵio²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /ŋiok̚¹/
Taoyuan /ŋiok̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jœk̚²/
Nanning /nœk̚²²/
Hong Kong /jœk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /giɔk̚⁵/
/liɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋyoʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋiɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋiak̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /niɔk̚³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (31)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋiɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/ŋiak̚/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuè
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nüè
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngjak ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ŋ](r)awk/
English cruel

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9636
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋawɢ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 二豎為虐二竖为虐
  • 傲虐
  • 兒童受虐儿童受虐
  • 凌虐
  • 凶虐
  • 刁虐
  • 助桀為虐助桀为虐
  • 助紂為虐助纣为虐 (zhù zhòu wéi nüè)
  • 受虐 (shòunüè)
  • 恣虐
  • 施虐
  • 旱魃為虐旱魃为虐
  • 暴虐 (bàonüè)
  • 暴虐浮躁
  • 暴虐無道暴虐无道
  • 欺虐
  • 殘虐残虐 (cánnüè)
  • 窮凶極虐穷凶极虐
  • 罔上虐下
  • 肆虐
  • 苛虐
  • 虐士
  • 虐待 (nüèdài)
  • 虐待狂 (nüèdàikuáng)
  • 虐政
  • 虐殺虐杀 (nüèshā)
  • 虐民
  • 虐疾
  • 被虐待狂
  • 謔而不虐谑而不虐
  • 豺虎肆虐
  • 賊虐贼虐
  • 酷虐
  • 陵上虐下
  • 陵虐
  • 雪虐風饕雪虐风饕

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(hak) (hangeul , revised hak, McCune-Reischauer hak, Yale hak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(ngược, ngước)

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