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邑

邑

邑 U+9091, 邑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9091
← 邐
[U+9090] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邒 →
[U+9092]
See also: 阝, 阜, and 巴

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • 阝 (when used as a right Chinese Radical)

Han character

邑 (radical 163 邑+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口日山 (RAU) or X口日山 (XRAU), four-corner 60717, composition ⿱口巴)

  1. Kangxi radical #163, ⾢ ‎(“city”).

Derived terms

  • Index:Chinese radical/邑

References

  • KangXi: page 1267, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9091

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 邑
alt. forms 阝 radical

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邑
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (邑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唈 *qɯːb, *qrɯb
浥 *qrɯːb, *qab, *qrɯb
裛 *qrab, *qab, *qrɯb
俋 *r'ɯb
挹 *qɯb
邑 *qrɯb
悒 *qrɯb

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 囗 + 卪.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 邑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 緝 (142)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 於汲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjip̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 邑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*q(r)[ə]p/
English city, town

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 邑
Reading # 1/1
No. 15021
Phonetic
component		 邑
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 邑
Old
Chinese		 /*qrɯb/

Definitions

邑

  1. state; country; nation
  2. capital; capital city
  3. city; town
  4. area; district
  5. Original form of 悒 (yì, “to worry; anxious”).

Compounds

  • 下邑
  • 京邑 (jīngyì)
  • 伯邑考
  • 城邑 (chéngyì)
  • 大邑
  • 天邑
  • 家邑
  • 巖邑／岩邑
  • 悁邑
  • 新邑
  • 於邑／于邑
  • 湯沐邑／汤沐邑
  • 皇邑
  • 蒲邑三善
  • 通都大邑
  • 邑人 (yìrén)
  • 邑侯
  • 邑君
  • 邑子
  • 邑宰
  • 邑庠
  • 邑犬群吠
  • 邑邑
  • 邑里
  • 郡邑
  • 都邑 (dūyì)
  • 鄹邑
  • 采邑 (càiyì)
  • 阿邑
  • 雒邑
  • 食邑
  • 馬邑／马邑 (Mǎyì)
  • 鬱邑／郁邑

Japanese

Kanji

邑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Etymology 1

Noun

邑 ‎(hiragana ゆう, romaji yū)

  1. Eup, an administrative division in Korea like a town

Etymology 2

Noun

邑 ‎(hiragana おおざと, romaji ōzato)

  1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

Korean

Hanja

邑 • ‎(eup) (hangeul 읍, revised eup, McCune-Reischauer ŭp, Yale up)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邑 (ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp)

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