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Translingual

Han character

(radical 130 +12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月戈心金 (BIPC), four-corner 73240)

  1. greasy, oily, dirty
  2. smooth

References

  • KangXi: page 994, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29862
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1445, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2110, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+81A9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nis
*njis
*njis
*njis
*njis

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (12)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/niɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳjiH/
Li
Rong
/njiH/
Wang
Li
/niH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/niH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nri[j]-s/
English oily

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2823
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nis/

Definitions

  1. greasy
  2. sick of; tired of

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ni>i) (hangeul >, revised ni>i, McCune-Reischauer ni>i, Yale ni>i)

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