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禮

禮

See also: 礼

Translingual

Shinjitai 礼
Simplified 礼
Traditional 禮

Alternative forms

  • 𥜨
  • 𥜪

Han character

禮 (radical 113 示+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 戈火廿田廿 (IFTWT), four-corner 35218, composition ⿰礻豊)

  1. social custom
  2. manners
  3. courtesy
  4. rites
  5. proper social behavior (in Confucianism)
  6. propriety
  7. politeness
  8. gift

Descendants

Usage notes

Note that a correct Japanese kyūjitai glyph uses 示 on the left, rather than the simplification 礻. The Unicode codepoint is the same, only the appearance of the glyph differs between fonts.

References

  • KangXi: page 847, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24844
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1268, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2409, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+79AE

Chinese

trad. 禮
simp. 礼
alt. forms 礼

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (豊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
體 *r̥ʰiːʔ
軆 *r̥ʰiːʔ
禮 *riːʔ
澧 *riːʔ
醴 *riːʔ
豊 *riːʔ
鱧 *riːʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *riːʔ) : semantic 礻 ‎(“altar”) + phonetic 豊 ‎(OC *riːʔ) – performing rites at the altar.

In Japanese kyūjitai, Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *riːʔ) : semantic 示 ‎(“altar”) + phonetic 豊 ‎(OC *riːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 禮
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 盧啓切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /leiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /leiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɛjX/
Li
Rong		 /leiX/
Wang
Li		 /lieiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 禮
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lǐ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lejX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[r]ˤijʔ/
English propriety, ceremony

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 禮
Reading # 1/1
No. 7839
Phonetic
component		 豊
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 禮
Old
Chinese		 /*riːʔ/

Definitions

禮

  1. present, gift
  2. etiquette
  3. salute

Usage notes

Usually, a single 禮 refers to gift that involves more serious social interaction. For gifts between friends, 禮物 is used instead.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

禮

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 礼)

  1. propriety, courtesy, politeness, etiquette

Readings

Usage notes

This spelling has been superseded in modern Japanese by the shinjitai form 礼.

Korean

Hanja

禮 • ‎(rye>ye)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 례>예 (revised: rye>ye, Yale: lyey>yey)
  • Name (hangeul): 례도, 예도 (revised: ryedo, yedo, McCune-Reischauer: ryedo, yedo)
  1. manners, etiquette

compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

禮 (lễ, thanh, lạy, lẩy, lẫy, lẻ, lể, rẩy, lãi, lấy, lỡi, lởi, rẽ)

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