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咿

咿

咿 U+54BF, 咿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54BF
← 咾
[U+54BE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 哀 →
[U+54C0]

Translingual

Han character

咿 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口人尸大 (ROSK), four-corner 67000, composition ⿰口伊)

  1. descriptive of creaking
  2. laugh

References

  • KangXi: page 188, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3579
  • Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 618, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+54BF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 咿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
芛 *ɢʷelʔ, *ɢʷid
伊 *qlil
咿 *qlil
蛜 *qlil
笋 *sɢʷinʔ
尹 *ɢʷlinʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 咿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 脂 (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於脂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔjɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔi/
Li
Rong		 /ʔi/
Wang
Li		 /i/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yī
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 咿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ʔ]ij/
English forced laugh

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 咿
Reading # 1/1
No. 15297
Phonetic
component		 尹
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 伊
Old
Chinese		 /*qlil/
Notes 見楚辭卜居

Definitions

咿

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Compounds

  • 咿呦
  • 咿咿
  • 咿咿啞啞／咿咿哑哑
  • 咿哩呱喇
  • 咿唔
  • 咿啞／咿哑
  • 咿喔
  • 咿嚘
  • 咿軋／咿轧
  • 喔咿
  • 喔咿嚅唲
  • 噢咿
  • 嚘咿

Japanese

Kanji

咿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: い (i)
  • Kun: つくりわらい (tsukuriwarai)

Korean

Hanja

咿 • ‎(i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i)

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