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僾

僾	U+50FE, 僾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-50FE

← 僽
[U+50FD]

CJK Unified Ideographs

僿 →
[U+50FF]

Translingual

Han character

僾 (radical 9 人+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 人月月水 (OBBE), four-corner 2224₇, composition ⿰亻愛)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 119, character 23

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1170

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 226, character 8

Unihan data for U+50FE

Chinese

simp. and trad.		僾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 僾

**Small seal script**
s05729

References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
Liushutong (large seal) and
Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (愛) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
愛	*qɯːds
曖	qɯːds, qaːds
僾	qɯːds, qɯlʔ
靉	qɯːds, qɯlʔ
薆	*qɯːds
璦	*qɯːds
瞹	*qaːds

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): ài (ai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): oi², oi³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: ài
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˋ
  - Wade-Giles: ai⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ay
  - IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: oi², oi³
  - Yale: ói, oi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: oi², oi³
  - IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯³⁵/, /ɔːi̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /ʔɨi^X/, /ʔʌi^H/▼

Rime
Character	僾	僾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	微 (20)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於豈切	烏代切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨi^X/	/ʔʌi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɨi^X/	/ʔəi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiəi^X/	/ʔɒi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨj^X/	/ʔəj^H/
Li Rong	/ʔiəi^X/	/ʔᴀi^H/
Wang Li	/ĭəi^X/	/ɒi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔe̯i^X/	/ʔɑ̆i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐ	ài

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*qˤəp-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qɯːds/, /*qɯlʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	僾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ài
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔoj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qˤəp-s/
English	to pant, lose the breath
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	僾	僾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	3	9
Phonetic component	愛	愛
Rime group	隊	微
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	愛	扆
Old Chinese	/*qɯːds/	/*qɯlʔ/

Japanese

Kanji

僾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: あい (ai)

Kun: ほのか (honoka), かくれる (kakureru), むせぶ (musebu), かなしむ (kanashimu)

Korean

Hanja

僾 • ‎(ae) (hangeul 애, revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae)

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