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毅

毅

Translingual

Han character

毅 (radical 79 殳+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 卜人竹弓水 (YOHNE), four-corner 07247, composition ⿰豙殳)

  1. resolute, decisive, firm

References

  • KangXi: page 587, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16673
  • Dae Jaweon: page 979, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2165, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6BC5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 毅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
豙 *ŋɯs, *ŋɯds
藙 *ŋɯds
顡 *ŋɯds, *ŋuːlʔ, *tŋruːls, *tŋ̥ʰruːls
毅 *ŋɯds

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 毅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 微 (20)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚旣切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨiH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɨjH/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiəiH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋe̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 毅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjɨjH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ]ə[t]-s/
English bold

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 毅
Reading # 1/1
No. 15115
Phonetic
component		 豙
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋɯds/

Definitions

毅

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Japanese

Kanji

毅

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Proper noun

毅 ‎(hiragana たけし, romaji Takeshi)

  1. A male given name

毅 ‎(hiragana つよし, romaji Tsuyoshi)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

毅 • ‎(ui) (hangeul 의, revised ui, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, Yale uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

毅 (nghị)

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