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義

義

See also: 义

Translingual

Stroke order
(traditional) (modern)

Han character

義 (radical 123 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹手戈 (TGHQI), four-corner 80553, composition ⿱𦍌我)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 952, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28504
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1397, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3133, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7FA9

Chinese

trad. 義
simp. 义

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 義
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrals) : semantic 羊 ‎(“sheep”) + phonetic 我 ‎(OC *ŋaːlʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 義
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i³¹²/
Xi'an /i⁴⁴/
Xining /ji²¹³/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i¹³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /i³⁵/
Chengdu /ȵi¹³/
Guiyang /ni²¹³/ 老
/i²¹³/ 新
Kunming /i²¹²/
Nanjing /i⁴⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /i⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ȵi³⁵/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi³¹/
Hangzhou /ȵi¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi²²/
Hui Shexian /ni²²/
Tunxi /ȵi¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ȵi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ȵi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ŋi⁵³/
Taoyuan /ŋi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ji²²/
Nanning /ji²²/
Hong Kong /ji²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gi²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋi⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋĩ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋi³⁵/
/ŋi³³/
Rime
Character 義
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 宜寄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ŋjeH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 義
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ(r)aj-s/
English duty; justice

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 義
Reading # 1/1
No. 13045
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 議
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋrals/

Definitions

義

  1. right conduct; righteousness; justice; morality
  2. meaning; implication
  3. rule; regulation
  4. charity; free
  5. adopted; foster
  6. artificial
  7. (Taiwan) Short for 義大利／义大利 (Yìdàlì, “Italy”).
  8. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

義

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

  • 義捐 (ぎえん) ‎(gien)
  • 義侠 (ぎきょう) ‎(gikyō)
  • 義訓 (ぎくん) ‎(gikun)

Noun

義 ‎(hiragana ぎ, romaji gi)

  1. a situation which has a right and proper reason
  2. a meaning
  3. a relative who has no blood relation
  4. an object which can be used properly instead of a right one
    • 義眼 (ぎがん) ‎(gigan)
    • 義手 (ぎしゅ) ‎(gishu)
    • 義足 (ぎそく) ‎(gisoku)
    • 義体 (ぎたい) ‎(gitai)

Korean

Hanja

義 • ‎(ui) (hangeul 의, revised ui, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, Yale uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

義 (nghĩa, nghì, ngửi, ngãi)

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