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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 170 +9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田一女 (NLWMV), four-corner 76232, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 1357, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41748
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1861, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4146, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9688

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl, *quːls
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːl
*quːlʔ
*quːlʔ, *qulʔ
*quːlʔ
*quːlʔ, *qruːl
*quːlʔ
*qrols
*quls

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (34) (34)
Final () (42) (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔuʌi/ /ʔuʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔuoi/ /ʔuoiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔuɒi/ /ʔuɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔwəj/ /ʔwəjH/
Li
Rong
/ʔuᴀi/ /ʔuᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/uɒi/ /uɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔuɑ̆i/ /ʔuɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wēi wèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔwoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ʔ]ˤuj/
English bend, nook (n.)

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 12924 12935
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
𩲄
Old
Chinese
/*quːl/ /*quːls/

Definitions

  1. cove, bay, inlet

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(oe) (hangeul , revised oe, McCune-Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

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