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荔
荔
Translingual
Han character
荔 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿大尸尸 (TKSS), four-corner 44227)
References
- KangXi: page 1031, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30865
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3212, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8354
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
荔 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 荔
|
|---|
| Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (劦) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 栛 | *reːbs |
| 珕 | *reːbs, *rebs |
| 荔 | *reːbs, *rebs |
| 脅 | *hlams, *hlab |
| 姭 | *hlams |
| 搚 | *raːb, *raːb |
| 拹 | *hlab |
| 愶 | *hlab |
| 嗋 | *hlab |
| 熁 | *hlab |
| 協 | *ɦleːb |
| 勰 | *ɦleːb |
| 劦 | *ɦleːb |
| 叶 | *ɦleːb |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *reːbs, *rebs) : semantic 艸 + phonetic 劦 (OC *ɦleːb).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
- Wade-Giles: lih4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
- IPA (key): /li⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: lai6
- Yale: laih
- Cantonese Pinyin: lai6
- IPA (key): /lɐi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nāi
- Tâi-lô: nāi
- Phofsit Daibuun: nai
- IPA (Xiamen): /naɪ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /naɪ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /naɪ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /naɪ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /naɪ³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 荔 | 荔 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) | 齊 (39) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | IV |
| Fanqie | 力智切 | 郎計切 |
| Reconstructions | ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/liᴇH/ | /leiH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/liɛH/ | /leiH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/ljɛH/ | /lɛiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/liə̆H/ | /lɛjH/ |
| Li Rong |
/lieH/ | /leiH/ |
| Wang Li |
/lǐeH/ | /lieiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/lie̯H/ | /lieiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lì | lì |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 荔 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lì |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lejH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[r]ˤep-s/ |
| English | herb whose roots are made into brushes |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 荔 | 荔 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 13776 | 13777 |
| Phonetic component |
劦 | 劦 |
| Rime group |
蓋 | 蓋 |
| Rime subdivision |
2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
麗 | 詈 |
| Old Chinese |
/*reːbs/ | /*rebs/ |
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