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Translingual

Han character

(radical 38 +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女大弓 (VKN), four-corner 45432, composition)

  1. maternal aunt (mother's sister)
  2. wife's sister
  3. co-wife (), concubine

References

  • KangXi: page 260, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6222
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1043, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+59E8

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*l'iːl, *lil
*l'iːl, *lil
*l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
*l'iːl, *lil
*l'iːl, *lil
*l̥ʰiːls, *lil
*ljilʔ, *lil
*hril
*lil
*lil
*lil
*lil
*lil
*lil
*lil
*lil, *lɯ
*lil

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ji/
Shao
Rongfen
/jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ji/
Li
Rong
/i/
Wang
Li
/ji/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14863
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lil/

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Korean

Hanja

(i) (hangeul , revised i, McCune-Reischauer i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(di, )

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