彝

See also: 彛 and 彞

彝 U+5F5D, 彝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F5D ← 彜 [U+5F5C] CJK Unified Ideographs 彞 → [U+5F5E]

Translingual

Han character

彝 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 2744₉, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)

1. Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
2. tripod, wine vessel
3. rule

Derived characters

• 𬯧

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9950
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 962, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5F5D

Chinese

trad.		彝/彞
simp.		彝
alternative forms		彛 彜 𦇚 𦆩 𢇏 彛 彜 𦇚 𦆩 𢇏 𧤋 𢁔 𢍵 𢑲 𦄳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彝
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *li): phonetic 彑 (OC *krads, “head”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + semantic 糸 (“silk”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) – a bird or slave with its wings or hands tied, offered for sacrifice with two hands. The bird or slave's head is represented by 彑, the body now by 米 (no connection to “rice”), the string that ties the wings or hands by 糸, and the two hands by 廾. The 彑 component is stated to be a phonetic in Shuowen.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yì

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yi²

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): î

  (Teochew, Peng'im): i⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yì
    • Hakka Romanization System: i^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi²
    • Sinological IPA: /i¹¹/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yì
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)i^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi²
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i¹¹/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yi²
    • Sinological IPA: /i¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
    • Tâi-lô: î
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /i²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: i⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: î
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l][ə]j/

  (Zhengzhang): /*li/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ yij ›
Old Chinese	/*[l][ə]j/
English	ritual vase
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	彝
Reading #	1/1
No.	14908
Phonetic component	彝
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	姨
Old Chinese	/*li/

Definitions

彝

1. ritual vessel in ancestral halls
2. wine vessel
3. rule; convention
4. (～族) Yi, an ethnic group living primarily in the mountainous areas of southwest China

Compounds

• 伯彞 / 伯彝
• 功銘鼎彞 / 功铭鼎彝
• 匪彞 / 匪彝
• 宗彞 / 宗彝
• 彞倫 / 彝伦
• 彞倫攸斁 / 彝伦攸𭣧
• 彞劇 / 彝剧
• 彞器 / 彝器 (yíqì)
• 彞憲 / 彝宪
• 彞文 / 彝文
• 彞族 / 彝族 (Yízú)
• 彞訓 / 彝训
• 彞語 / 彝语 (Yíyǔ)
• 怒彞 / 怒彝
• 斝彞 / 斝彝
• 方彞 / 方彝
• 朱彞尊 / 朱彝尊
• 民彞 / 民彝
• 秉彞 / 秉彝
• 蜼彞 / 蜼彝
• 鼎彞 / 鼎彝

References

• “彝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

彝

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 彝)
• Nanori: つね (tsune)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
彝
い Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 彝.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) い [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [i]

Noun

彝(い) • (i) 

1. in ancient China, a tripod kettle or other vessel used to make offerings to one's ancestors
2. (by extension) cardinal principle

Proper noun

彝(い) • (I) 

1. Yi (ethnic group)

Korean

Hanja

彝 (eum 이 (i))

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Vietnamese

Han character

彝: Hán Nôm readings: di

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References

• Nom Foundation