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Translingual

Han character

(radical 61 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿日心 (YTAP), four-corner 00336, composition)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 394, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10921
  • Dae Jaweon: page 730, character 28
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2323, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+610F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qrɯːɡs, *qɯ
*qɯ, *qɯʔ, *qɯl
*qɯʔ, *qɯɡ
*qɯɡs
*qɯɡs
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ
*qɯɡ

Modern form is a compound of and (“heart”). However, the top component is etymologically unrelated to .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɨH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɨH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔɨH/
Li
Rong
/ʔiəH/
Wang
Li
/ĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔiH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔ(r)ək-s/
English thought (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 15153
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯɡs/

Definitions

  1. thought; idea; opinion; mind
  2. heart; soul; conscience
  3. meaning; sense
  4. to anticipate
  5. Short for 意大利 (Yìdàlì, “Italy; Italian”).

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. idea
  2. mind
  3. heart
  4. desire

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana , romaji i)

  1. thoughts
  2. meaning

Korean

Hanja

(ui) (hangeul , revised ui, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, Yale uy)

  1. ( 의, tteut-): meaning, intention, signification, significance

Compounds

See also


Vietnamese

Han character

(ý, ấy, ới, áy, ư, ơi)

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