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Translingual
Han character
例 (radical 9 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人一弓弓 (OMNN), four-corner 22200, composition ⿰亻列)
References
- KangXi: page 101, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 587
- Dae Jaweon: page 215, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 146, character 8
- Unihan data for U+4F8B
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
例 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 例 | |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (列) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 例 | *reds |
| 鮤 | *reds, *red |
| 栵 | *reds, *red |
| 洌 | *reds, *red |
| 銐 | *r'eds, *r̥ʰjeds |
| 峛 | *relʔ |
| 列 | *red |
| 裂 | *red |
| 烈 | *red |
| 冽 | *red |
| 迾 | *red |
| 蛚 | *red |
| 茢 | *red |
| 颲 | *red |
| 鴷 | *red |
| 挒 | *red |
| 姴 | *red |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: lih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
- IPA (key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lai6
- Yale: laih
- Cantonese Pinyin: lai6
- IPA (key): /lɐi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 例 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /li⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /li⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /li⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /li²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /li⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /li³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /li⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /l̩²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /li¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /li¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /li²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /ni³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /ni¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /ni²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /li²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /li⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /zz̩⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /li⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /li³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /li⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /liɪʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /li³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /li¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /li²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /li²²/ |
| Tunxi | /le¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /li⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /ni⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /li²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /li⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /li⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /lɐi²²/ |
| Nanning | /lɐi²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /lɐi²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /le²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /liɛ²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /li⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /li³¹/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /lɔi²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 例 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 祭 (35) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 力制切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/liᴇiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/liɛiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ljæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/liajH/ |
| Li Rong |
/liɛiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/lĭɛiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/li̯ɛiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lì |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 例 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8121 |
| Phonetic component |
列 |
| Rime group |
祭 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
例 |
| Old Chinese |
/*reds/ |
Definitions
例
- example
- precedent
- rule
- case
- instance
Compounds
- 例如 meaning "for example"
Japanese
Noun
- 例 (ためし, tameshi)
- 例し (ためし, tameshi)
The most common reading is れい (rei).
- example, instance
- illustration
- case
- custom, the usual
- 例によって
- れいによって
- rei ni yotte
- as usual
- 例に無く
- れいになく
- rei ni naku
- contrary to habit
- 例によって
- precedent
- that
- 例の男
- れいのおとこ
- rei no otoko
- that man (who we were speaking about)
- 例の男
Kanji
例
Readings
- Goon: れ (re)
- Kan’on: れい (rei)
- On (unclassified): れつ (retsu)
- Kun: たとえる (例える, tatoeru), たぐい (tagui), ためし (tameshi)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
例 • (rye) (hangeul 례, revised rye, McCune-Reischauer rye)
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Vietnamese
Han character
例 (lệ)
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