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異
異
Translingual
Alternative forms
- 異 – Unicode z-code variants at points U+7570 and U+F962
Compare 鬼 (“demon”), where the 田 also derives from a face.
Modern form is graphically 田 + 共, though this is not the etymology. Unrelated to visually similar 暴.
Han character
異 (radical 102 田+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田廿金 (WTC), four-corner 60801, composition ⿱田共)
- Shuōwén Jiězì radical №65
Derived characters
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (different): 同
References
- KangXi: page 763, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21866
- Dae Jaweon: page 1173, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2540, character 5
- Unihan data for U+7570
- Unihan data for U+F962
Chinese
| trad. | 異 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 异 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: i4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
- IPA (key): /i⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: ji6
- Yale: yih
- Cantonese Pinyin: ji6
- IPA (key): /jiː²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ī
- Tâi-lô: ī
- Phofsit Daibuun: i
- IPA (Quanzhou): /i⁴¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /i³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /i³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /i²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /i²²/
- (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: īⁿ
- Tâi-lô: īnn
- Phofsit Daibuun: vi
- IPA (Taipei): /ĩ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ĩ³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /ĩ²²/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ĩ²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 異 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 之 (19) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 羊吏切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/jɨH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/jɨH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ieH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/jɨH/ |
| Li Rong |
/iəH/ |
| Wang Li |
/jĭəH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/iH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
yì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 異 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
yì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ yiH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɢ(r)ək-s/ |
| English | different |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 異 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15102 |
| Phonetic component |
異 |
| Rime group |
代 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
異 |
| Old Chinese |
/*lɯɡs/ |
| Notes | 金文異象雙手護住頭所頂物爲戴翼初文 |
Definitions
異
Japanese
Kanji
異
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
異 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)
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Vietnamese
Han character
異 (dị)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 異
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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 (異) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 禩 | *ljɯʔ |
| 異 | *lɯɡs |
| 潩 | *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ |
| 廙 | *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ |
| 趩 | *l̥ʰɯɡ |
| 瀷 | *l̥ʰjɯɡ, *lɯɡ |
| 翼 | *lɯɡ |
| 熼 | *lɯɡ |
Ideogram (指事) – a man with a mask (田) over his face (different face) – see Chinese Etymology: 異, by Richard Sears.