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淮

淮

Translingual

Han character

淮 (radical 85 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水人土 (EOG) or X水人土 (XEOG), four-corner 30114, composition ⿰氵隹)

  1. river in Henan and Anhui province

References

  • KangXi: page 631, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17682
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1034, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1652, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6DEE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 淮

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
匯 *ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓 *kʰʷriːl
淮 *ɡʷriːl
睢 *qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉 *sqʷi
趡 *skʰʷilʔ
踓 *skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖 *sqʰʷi
濉 *sqʰʷi
倠 *qʰʷi
婎 *qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維 *ɢʷi
惟 *ɢʷi
唯 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰 *ɢʷi
琟 *ɢʷil
鷕 *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷 *ɢʷril
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 淮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 皆 (34)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) II
Fanqie 戸乖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦˠuɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦʷᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwəɨj/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɛi/
Wang
Li		 /ɣwɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣwăi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huái
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 淮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huái
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwɛj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷˤrij/
English (name of a river)

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 淮
Reading # 1/1
No. 12838
Phonetic
component		 唯
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 懷
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡʷriːl/

Definitions

淮

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Compounds

  • 兩淮／两淮
  • 別風淮雨／别风淮雨
  • 江淮
  • 泊秦淮
  • 淮劇／淮剧
  • 淮北 (Huáiběi)
  • 淮南 (Huáinán)
  • 淮南子
  • 淮南雞犬／淮南鸡犬
  • 淮夷
  • 淮安縣／淮安县
  • 淮左
  • 淮枳
  • 淮水
  • 淮河 (Huái Hé)
  • 淮海戲／淮海戏
  • 淮西
  • 淮軍／淮军
  • 淮陰侯／淮阴侯
  • 淮陰縣／淮阴县
  • 淮陽縣／淮阳县
  • 淮鹽／淮盐
  • 秦淮河
  • 臥理淮陽／卧理淮阳
  • 黃淮平原／黄淮平原

Japanese

Kanji

淮

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

淮 • ‎(hoe) (hangeul 회, revised hoe, McCune-Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

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