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徽
徽
Translingual
Han character
徽 (radical 60 彳+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹人山火大 (HOUFK), four-corner 28240, composition ⿰彳𢾰)
- When referring to the guqin zither:
- the 13 white dots made of mother-of-pearl inlaid onto the surface board marking the harmonic positions
- same as 暉 (variant)
References
- KangXi: page 372, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10267
- Dae Jaweon: page 699, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 849, character 6
- Unihan data for U+5FBD
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
徽 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (微) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 矀 | *mrɯl, *mɯl |
| 覹 | *mrɯl |
| 黴 | *mrɯl, *mɯːls |
| 薇 | *mrɯl, *mɯl |
| 媺 | *mrɯlʔ |
| 微 | *mɯl |
| 溦 | *mɯl |
| 癓 | *mɯl |
| 徽 | *hmɯl |
| 幑 | *hmɯl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *hmɯl) : phonetic 微 (OC *mɯl) + semantic 糸 (“cloth”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟ
- Wade-Giles: hui1
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huei
- IPA (key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: fai1
- Yale: fāi
- Cantonese Pinyin: fai1
- IPA (key): /fɐi̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 徽 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /xuei⁵⁵/ |
| Harbin | /xuei⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /xuei²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /xuei²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /xue²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /xuei²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /xuei²¹/ | |
| Xining | /xuɨ⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /xuei¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /xuei³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /xuei⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /xuei⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /xuei⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /xuei⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /xuei⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /xuəi³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /xue²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /xuei¹¹/ |
| Pingyao | /xuæ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /xuei³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /hue³⁵/ |
| Suzhou | /hue̞⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /hui³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /fai³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /xue³¹/ |
| Tunxi |
/ɕy¹¹/ /xuə¹¹/ |
|
| Xiang | Changsha | /fei³³/ |
| Xiangtan | /ɸəi³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /fɨi⁴²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /fi⁴⁴/ |
| Taoyuan | /fui²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /fɐi⁵³/ |
| Nanning | /fui⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /fɐi⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /hui⁵⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /huoi⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /xo⁵⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /hui³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /hui²³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 微 (21) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許歸切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/hʉi/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/hʷɨi/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/xiuəi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/huj/ |
| Li Rong |
/xiuəi/ |
| Wang Li |
/xĭwəi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/xwe̯i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
huī |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
huī |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ xjwɨj › |
| Old Chinese |
/*m̥əj/ |
| English | rope |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 徽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12806 |
| Phonetic component |
微 |
| Rime group |
微 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
揮 |
| Old Chinese |
/*hmɯl/ |
Definitions
徽
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Compounds
- 安徽 (Ānhuī)
Japanese
Kanji
徽
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
徽 • (hwi) (hangeul 휘, revised hwi, McCune-Reischauer hwi, Yale hwi)
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Vietnamese
Han character
徽 (huy)
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