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憶

憶

See also: 忆

Translingual

Han character

憶 (radical 61 心+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 心卜廿心 (PYTP), four-corner 90036, composition ⿰忄意)

  1. remember, reflect upon
  2. memory

References

  • KangXi: page 404, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11295
  • Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2362, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+61B6

Chinese

trad. 憶
simp. 忆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (意) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
噫 *qrɯːɡs, *qɯ
譩 *qɯ, *qɯʔ, *qɯl
醷 *qɯʔ, *qɯɡ
意 *qɯɡs
鷾 *qɯɡs
憶 *qɯɡ
億 *qɯɡ
臆 *qɯɡ
繶 *qɯɡ
澺 *qɯɡ
薏 *qɯɡ
檍 *qɯɡ
癔 *qɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯɡ) : semantic 心 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 意 ‎(OC *qɯɡs, “thought”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 憶
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i³¹²/
Xi'an /i⁴⁴/
Xining /ji²¹³/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i¹³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /i³⁵/
Chengdu /i¹³/
Guiyang /i²¹³/
Kunming /i²¹²/
Nanjing /i⁴⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /i³⁵/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /i³⁵/
Suzhou /i⁵¹³/
Hangzhou /ʔi⁴⁴⁵/
Wenzhou /j̠i⁴²/
Hui Shexian /i³²⁴/
Tunxi /i¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /i⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /i⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /i⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /it̚¹/
Taoyuan /ʒï⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /jek̚⁵/
Nanning /jek̚⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /jek̚⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ik̚³²/
/it̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ɛiʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /i³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ek̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /it̚⁵/
/i⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 憶
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於力切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔik̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiək̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憶
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔik ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔ(r)ək/
English remember

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 憶
Reading # 1/1
No. 15156
Phonetic
component		 意
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 憶
Old
Chinese		 /*qɯɡ/

Verb

憶

  1. To remember
    記憶／记忆 (jìyì)
    回憶／回忆 (huíyì)

Noun

憶

  1. memory
    回憶／回忆 (huíyì)

Usage notes

  • Used only in compounds.

References

Japanese

Kanji

憶

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to think, to consider, to believe

Readings

Korean

Hanja

憶 • ‎(eok) (hangeul 억, revised eok, McCune-Reischauer ŏk, Yale ek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憶 (ức)

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