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疫

疫

Translingual

Han character

疫 (radical 104 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹弓水 (KHNE), four-corner 00147)

  1. epidemic, plague, pestilence

References

  • KangXi: page 770, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22069
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2663, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+75AB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 疫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疫
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (役) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
椺 *ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ
役 *ɢʷeɡ
疫 *ɢʷeɡ
垼 *ɢʷeɡ
炈 *ɢʷeɡ
鈠 *ɢʷeɡ
豛 *ɢʷeɡ
坄 *doː, *leɡ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 疫
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /i²⁴/
Xining /ji²⁴/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /y²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /i³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦioʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /yʔ²¹/
Tunxi /y⁵/
Xiang Changsha /y²⁴/
Xiangtan /y²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /it̚⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jek̚²/
Nanning /jek̚²²/
Hong Kong /jik̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /iʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /i²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /mok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /muak̚³/
Rime
Character 疫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 昔 (124)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 營隻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jwiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iuæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /iuɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭwɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯wɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 疫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ywek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷek/
English epidemic

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 疫
Reading # 1/1
No. 15007
Phonetic
component		 役
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 役
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷeɡ/

Definitions

疫

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Compounds

  • 晚疫病
  • 檢疫／检疫 (jiǎnyì)
  • 沙克疫苗
  • 沙賓疫苗／沙宾疫苗
  • 活性疫苗
  • 海港檢疫／海港检疫
  • 混合疫苗
  • 畜疫
  • 疫區／疫区
  • 疫氣／疫气 (yìqì)
  • 疫病 (yìbìng)
  • 疫癘／疫疠 (yìlì)
  • 疫苗 (yìmiáo)
  • 疫鬼
  • 瘟疫 (wēnyì)
  • 瘴疫
  • 白喉疫苗
  • 自然免疫
  • 虎疫
  • 被動免疫／被动免疫
  • 防疫 (fángyì)
  • 霍亂疫區／霍乱疫区
  • 驗疫／验疫
  • 鼠疫 (shǔyì)

Japanese

Kanji

疫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

疫 • ‎(yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune-Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疫 (dịch)

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