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倚

倚

倚 U+501A, 倚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-501A
← 候
[U+5019] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 倛 →
[U+501B]

Translingual

Han character

倚 (radical 9 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人大一口 (OKMR), four-corner 24221, composition ⿰亻奇)

  1. rely on, depend on
  2. lean heavily

References

  • KangXi: page 108, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 776
  • Dae Jaweon: page 230, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 173, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+501A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 倚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 倚
Large seal script

L34147

L34148

L34149

L13645

L13646

L13647
Small seal script

s05760
References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (奇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
奇 *kral, *ɡral
畸 *kral
剞 *kral, *kralʔ
羇 *kral
掎 *kral, *kralʔ, *kʰrals
攲 *kral, *kralʔ, *kʰral
躸 *kral
踦 *kralʔ, *kʰral
寄 *krals
徛 *krals, *ɡralʔ
欹 *kʰral, *qral
崎 *kʰral, *ɡɯl
觭 *kʰral, *kʰralʔ
碕 *kʰral, *kʰralʔ, *ɡral, *ɡɯl
綺 *kʰralʔ
婍 *kʰralʔ
騎 *ɡral, *ɡrals
琦 *ɡral
鵸 *ɡral
錡 *ɡral, *ɡralʔ, *ŋɡralʔ
輢 *ɡrals, *qralʔ, *qrals
齮 *ŋɡralʔ
犄 *qral
猗 *qral, *qralʔ
椅 *qral, *qralʔ
旖 *qral, *qralʔ
陭 *qral, *qrals
檹 *qral
漪 *qral
倚 *qralʔ, *qrals

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 倚 倚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (13) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie 於綺切 於義切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiᴇX/ /ʔˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚiɛX/ /ʔᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiɛX/ /ʔiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjiə̆X/ /ʔjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjeX/ /ʔjeH/
Wang
Li		 /ǐeX/ /ǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔie̯X/ /ʔie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǐ yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 倚
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjeX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.q(r)ajʔ/
English lean on

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 倚 倚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10018 10022
Phonetic
component		 奇 奇
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 倚 倚
Old
Chinese		 /*qralʔ/ /*qrals/

Definitions

倚

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Japanese

Kanji

倚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

倚 • ‎(ui, gi) (hangeul 의, 기, revised ui, gi, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, ki)

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Vietnamese

Han character

倚 (ỷ, ấy)

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