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Translingual

Han character

(radical 196 +11, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹日火 (SEHAF), four-corner 77327)

  1. seagull

References

  • KangXi: page 1499, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47267
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2029, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4656, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+9DD6

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qiː
*qiː, *qiːs
*qiː
*qiː
*qiː, *qiːs
*qiːs
*qiːs
*qiːs
*qiːs
*qiːs
*ɢʷis
*qɯ
*qɯ
*qiːɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔei/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔei/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɛj/
Li
Rong
/ʔei/
Wang
Li
/iei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔej ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˤij/
English seagull; fabulous bird

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. 15045
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qiː/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 鳧鷖凫鹥

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ye) (hangeul , revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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