醴

醴 U+91B4, 醴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91B4 ← 醳 [U+91B3] CJK Unified Ideographs 醵 → [U+91B5]

醴 U+F9B7, 醴 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F9B7 ← 禮 [U+F9B6] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 隸 → [U+F9B8]

Translingual

Han character

醴 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+13, 20 strokes, cangjie input 一田廿田廿 (MWTWT), four-corner 1561₈, composition ⿰酉豊)

1. sweet wine
2. sweet spring

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1288, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40053
• Dae Jaweon: page 1788, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3600, character 2
• Unihan data for U+91B4

• Unihan data for U+F9B7

Chinese

trad.		醴
simp. #		醴

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
體	*r̥ʰiːʔ
軆	*r̥ʰiːʔ
禮	*riːʔ
澧	*riːʔ
醴	*riːʔ
豊	*riːʔ
鱧	*riːʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǐ (li³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǐ
    • Wade–Giles: li³
    • Yale: lǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lii
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lai⁵
    • Yale: láih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐi̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: lejX

Rime
Character	醴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	盧啓切
Baxter	lejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leiX/
Pan Wuyun	/leiX/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjX/
Li Rong	/leiX/
Wang Li	/lieiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lieiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*riːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醴
Reading #	1/1
No.	7841
Phonetic component	豊
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	禮
Old Chinese	/*riːʔ/

Definitions

醴

1. sweet wine
2. sweet spring water

Compounds

• 啐醴
• 牢醴
• 牲醴
• 犧牲酒醴 / 牺牲酒醴
• 玉醴
• 甘醴
• 芳醴
• 酒醴麴櫱 / 酒醴曲蘖
• 醴泉
• 醴酒不設 / 醴酒不设
• 金漿玉醴 / 金浆玉醴

 

Japanese

Kanji

醴

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. sweet sake

Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei)、らい (rai)
• Kun: あまざけ (amazake)

Korean

Hanja

醴 • (rye>ye) (hangeul 례>예, revised rye>ye, McCune–Reischauer rye>ye, Yale lyey>yey)

1. sweet wine
2. sweet spring

Vietnamese

Han character

醴: Hán Nôm readings: lễ

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