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畏
畏
Translingual
Han character
畏 (radical 102 田+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 田一女 (WMV), four-corner 60732)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 760, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21778
- Dae Jaweon: page 1170, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2532, character 3
- Unihan data for U+754F
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
畏 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 畏
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (畏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 煨 | *quːl |
| 偎 | *quːl |
| 隈 | *quːl, *quːls |
| 椳 | *quːl |
| 鰃 | *quːl |
| 渨 | *quːl |
| 葨 | *quːl |
| 揋 | *quːl |
| 猥 | *quːlʔ |
| 嵔 | *quːlʔ, *qulʔ |
| 鍡 | *quːlʔ |
| 碨 | *quːlʔ, *qruːl |
| 腲 | *quːlʔ |
| 餵 | *qrols |
| 畏 | *quls |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 甶 (“spirit (abbreviated as 田)”) + 爪 (“claws, lower portion of 虎, tiger”) – a spirit/demon in shock/fear because of the claws (of a tiger).
From the Shuowen: “从甶，虎省。鬼頭而虎爪，可畏也。𤰲，古文省。” (“From 甶 and abridged 虎 [written as such in the Lesser Seal Script]. The head of a ghost encountering and frightened by the claws of a tiger. In the older script, [picture not shown, written with 甶 on top and 爪 below.]”)
胃 has an identical pronunciation and also features 田 on the top, but isn't related accord to the Shuowen, although it's used as the fǎnqiè of 畏.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
- Wade-Giles: wei4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
- IPA (key): /u̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: wai3
- Yale: wai
- Cantonese Pinyin: wai3
- IPA (key): /wɐi̯³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ùi
- Tâi-lô: uì
- Phofsit Daibuun: uix
- IPA (Xiamen): /ui²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ui⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ui²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /ui¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ui²¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 微 (21) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 於胃切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/ʔʉiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/ʔʷɨiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ʔiuəiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/ʔujH/ |
| Li Rong |
/ʔiuəiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/ĭwəiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/ʔwe̯iH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wèi |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wèi |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ ʔjwɨjH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*ʔuj-s/ |
| English | fear (v.); threaten |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 畏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12939 |
| Phonetic component |
畏 |
| Rime group |
微 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
尉 |
| Old Chinese |
/*quls/ |
Definitions
畏
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
畏 • (oe) (hangeul 외, revised oe, McCune-Reischauer oe, Yale oy)
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Vietnamese
Han character
畏 (úy, uý, hoáy, hoay)
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