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隈

隈

Translingual

Han character

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

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.
 隈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (畏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
煨 *quːl
偎 *quːl
隈 *quːl, *quːls
椳 *quːl
鰃 *quːl
渨 *quːl
葨 *quːl
揋 *quːl
猥 *quːlʔ
嵔 *quːlʔ, *qulʔ
鍡 *quːlʔ
碨 *quːlʔ, *qruːl
腲 *quːlʔ
餵 *qrols
畏 *quls

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 隈 隈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 灰 (42) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 烏恢切 烏繢切
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 隈
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 隈 隈
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12924 12935
Phonetic
component		 畏 畏
Rime
group		 微 微
Rime
subdivision		 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 隈 𩲄
Old
Chinese		 /*quːl/ /*quːls/

Definitions

隈

  1. cove, bay, inlet

Japanese

Kanji

隈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

隈 • ‎(oe) (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune-Reischauer oe, Yale oy)

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