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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木人月 (DOB), four-corner 44927, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 516, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14552
  • Dae Jaweon: page 904, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1170, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6798

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*nuːms, *nuːb, *rnoːd
*nuːbs
*tnobs, *njobs
*njobs
*njobs
*njobs
*njobs
*njobs, *lobs, *njod
*nuːns, *nuːd
*nuːb
*nuːb
*nuːb, *noːb
*nuːb
*nuːb
*rnuːd
*rnuːd, *nuːd, *nuɡ
*nod
*njod
*nuːd

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (36)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiuᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵʷiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiuæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵwiajH/
Li
Rong
/ȵiuɛiH/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭwɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯wɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ruì
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9384
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njobs/

Definitions

  1. tool handle

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. navel; a protrusion; a tenon

Readings

Noun

(hiragana ほぞ, romaji hozo)

  1. Alternative spelling of a navel; a protrusion; a tenon in a mortise and tenon carpentry join

Usage notes

The tenon sense is sometimes spelled . This alternate character might be considered by some to be a misspelling. Note that the right-hand element of is without a top bar, while the right-hand element of is with a top bar.


Korean

Hanja

(ye) (hangeul , revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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