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翼

翼

Translingual

Han character

翼 (radical 124 羽+12 in Chinese, 羽+11 in Japanese, in Chinese 18 strokes, in Japanese 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸一田廿金 (SMWTC), four-corner 17801, composition ⿱羽異)

References

  • KangXi: page 959, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28801
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1406, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3356, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7FFC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (異) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
禩 *ljɯʔ
異 *lɯɡs
潩 *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ
廙 *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ
趩 *l̥ʰɯɡ
瀷 *l̥ʰjɯɡ, *lɯɡ
翼 *lɯɡ
熼 *lɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lɯɡ) : semantic 羽 + phonetic 異 ‎(OC *lɯɡs).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 翼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與職切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jik̚/
Li
Rong		 /iək̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yik ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷrəp/ (dialect: *-p > *-k)
English wing

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 翼
Reading # 1/1
No. 15108
Phonetic
component		 異
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 弋
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯɡ/

Definitions

翼

  1. wing
  2. fin (on fish)
  3. wing (of an airplane)
  4. (figuratively) wing; flank
  5. to assist

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

翼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
翼
つばさ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

翼 ‎(hiragana つばさ, romaji tsubasa)

  1. wing

Proper noun

翼 ‎(hiragana つばさ, romaji Tsubasa)

  1. A male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
翼
よく
Grade: S
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 翼 ‎(yik, “wing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

翼 ‎(hiragana よく, romaji yoku)

  1. wing

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

翼 • ‎(ik) (hangeul 익, McCune-Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翼 (dực, dức)

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