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藝

See also: 艺, 芸, and 兿

Translingual

Traditional	藝
Shinjitai	芸
Simplified	艺

Han character

藝 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿土戈戈 (TGII), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱蓺云)

Descendants

芸艺

References

KangXi: page 1065, character 34

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32330

Dae Jaweon: page 1530, character 25

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3317, character 12

Unihan data for U+85DD

Chinese

trad.		藝
simp.		艺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (埶) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
褹	ŋr'eːds, ŋeds
勢	*hŋjeds
藝	*ŋeds
囈	*ŋeds
埶	*ŋeds
蓺	*ŋeds
槸	*ŋeds
爇	*ŋʷjed
褻	*sŋed
暬	*sŋed
熱	*ŋjed
槷	*ŋeːd

蓺 + 云.

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngi
Min Nan (POJ): gē

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Wade-Giles: i⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngai⁶
  - Yale: ngaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngi
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngi⁴
  - IPA: /ɲi⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gē
  - Tâi-lô: gē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ge
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ge²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ge⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ge²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ge³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ge³³/

Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 藝
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
	Hohhot	/i⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵi²³/
	Suzhou	/ȵi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ȵi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ȵi²²/
Hui	Shexian	/ni²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/ȵi¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ȵi⁵⁵/ /ȵi¹¹/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/ȵi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ȵi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋi⁵³/
Hakka	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/ŋɐi²²/
	Nanning	/ŋɐi²²/
	Hong Kong	/ŋɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ge²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/ŋiɛ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ŋi⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/goi³¹/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ŋi³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /ŋiᴇi^H/▼

Rime
Character	藝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	魚祭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋiᴇi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɛi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋjæi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋiaj^H/
Li Rong	/ŋiɛi^H/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɛi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯ɛi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	y-

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*ŋet-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjiej^H ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋet-s/ (MC I!)
English	cultivation, art, skill
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	藝
Reading #	1/1
No.	15090
Phonetic component	埶
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	藝
Old Chinese	/*ŋeds/
Notes	蓺六藝分化字

Noun

藝

art
- 藝術 / 艺术 ― yìshù ― art
skill; talent
- 技藝 / 技艺 ― jìyì ― skill
craft
- 手藝 / 手艺 ― shǒuyì ― craftmanship, workmanship
(obsolete) limit, bound, norm
- Warring States Period, Discourses of the States (國語), Discourses of Jin, Book VIII (晉語八).
  
  及桓子，驕泰奢侈，貪欲無藝 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  
  及桓子，骄泰奢侈，贪欲无艺 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  
  jí Huánzǐ, jiāo tài shēchǐ, tān yù wú yì [Pinyin]
  
  By the time of Lord Huan of Luan, [he was] excessively arrogant and extravagant; [his] greed and desires [knew] no limits.

Verb

藝

(obsolete) to plant, to grow

Usage notes

Used only in compounds.

References

藝 in CEDICT on MDBG
“Entry #12869”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Japanese

Kanji

藝

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

technique, art, craft, performance

Readings

Goon: げ, (ge)
Kan’on: げい (gei)
Kun: (all rare) うえる (ueru), のり (nori), わざ (waza)

Korean

Hanja

藝 • ‎(ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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藝

藝

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