倠

See also: 隹

倠 U+5020, 倠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5020 ← 借 [U+501F] CJK Unified Ideographs 倡 → [U+5021]

Translingual

Han character

倠 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人人土 (OOG) or 難人人土 (XOOG), four-corner 2021₄, composition ⿰亻隹)

Derived characters

• 雁, 䧹, 𠥔, 𤸰, 𨿳, 𪜤, 𡠓, 𮥸, 𨶊, 𪴳, 𦢻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 108, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 782
• Dae Jaweon: page 231, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 180, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5020

Chinese

simp. and trad.		倠
alternative forms		婎 𠈆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
匯	*ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓	*kʰʷriːl
淮	*ɡʷriːl
睢	*qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉	*sqʷi
趡	*skʰʷilʔ
踓	*skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖	*sqʰʷi
濉	*sqʰʷi
倠	*qʰʷi
婎	*qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維	*ɢʷi
惟	*ɢʷi
唯	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰	*ɢʷi
琟	*ɢʷil
鷕	*ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷	*ɢʷril
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰʷi) : semantic 人 (“person”) + phonetic 隹 (OC *tjul).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huī, suī (hui¹, sui¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟ, ㄙㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huī
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huei
    • Wade–Giles: hui¹
    • Yale: hwēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
    • Palladius: хуэй (xuej)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: suī
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: suei
    • Wade–Giles: sui¹
    • Yale: swēi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suei
    • Palladius: суй (suj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: seoi¹
    • Yale: sēui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjwij

Rime
Character	倠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許維切
Baxter	xjwij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/hʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/xjuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwi/
Li Rong	/xui/
Wang Li	/xwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/xwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷi/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	倠
Reading #	1/1
No.	12846
Phonetic component	唯
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	倠
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷi/

Definitions

倠

1. ^† ugly

Compounds

• 仳倠
• 倠醜／倠丑

 

Japanese

Kanji

倠

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. ugly

Readings

• On (unclassified): き (ki)
• Kun: みにくい (minikui)

Korean

Hanja

倠 • (hyu) (hangeul 휴, revised hyu, McCune–Reischauer hyu)

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