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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木尸心 (DSP), four-corner 47911, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 518, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14605
  • Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1189, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+67C5

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*niːl, *niːls
*niːl
*niːlʔ
*niːlʔ
*niːls
*braːms, *niːl, *niːls
*nilʔ
*nilʔ
*nilʔ
*nil
*nil
*nil
*nil, *nilʔ
*nil
*nil
*nil
*rniːd
*niɡ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (12) (12)
Final () (17) (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () Chongniu III Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɳˠiɪ/ /ɳˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɳᵚi/ /ɳᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/niɪ/ /niɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɳji/ /ɳjiX/
Li
Rong
/nji/ /njiX/
Wang
Li
/ni/ /niX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ni/ /niX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nrijX › ‹ nrijH ›
Old
Chinese
/*n<r>[ə]rʔ/ /*n<r>[ə]rʔ-s/
English a stopper for carriages a stopper for carriages

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 9431 9435
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nil/ /*nilʔ/

Definitions

  1. flourish

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ni>i) (hangeul >, revised ni>i, McCune-Reischauer ni>i, Yale ni>i)

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