繄

繄 U+7E44, 繄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E44 ← 繃 [U+7E43] CJK Unified Ideographs 繅 → [U+7E45]

Translingual

Han character

繄 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸水女戈火 (SEVIF) or 難尸水女戈 (XSEVI), four-corner 7790₃, composition ⿱殹糸)

1. be
2. particle
3. sigh, alas

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27853
• Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3442, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7E44

Chinese

trad.		繄
simp. #		繄

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 繄
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ / ai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹ / ai¹
    • Yale: yī / āi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ / ai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ / ei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/, /ɐi̯⁵⁵/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej, 'ejH

Rime
Character	繄	繄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切	於計切
Baxter	'ej	'ejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/	/ʔɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/	/ʔɛjH/
Li Rong	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Wang Li	/iei/	/ieiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔiei/	/ʔieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1	jai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/, /*qiːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	繄	繄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15049	15055
Phonetic component	医	医
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖	翳
Old Chinese	/*qiː/	/*qiːs/

Definitions

繄

1. Meaningless sentence-initial particle

   Synonyms: 唯, 維 / 维, 惟 (wéi)

   爾有母遺，繄我獨無！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   尔有母遗，繄我独无！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

   Ěr yǒu mǔ wèi, yī wǒ dú wú! [Pinyin]

   You have a mother to give [the broth to]; I alone do not!

Compounds

• 繄袼

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03457
• “繄”, 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

繄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)、い (i)
• Kun: ほこばくろ (hokobakuro)

Korean

Hanja

繄 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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