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いい U+8B02, 謂
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B02

[U+8B01]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8B03]

Translingual

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Han character

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いい (Kangxi radical 149, げん+9, 16 strokes, cangjie input うらない口田くちたがつ (YRWB), four-corner 06627, composition )

  1. say, tell
  2. call, name
  3. be called

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1173, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35759
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1638, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3997, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8B02

Chinese

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trad. いい
simp.

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい形声けいせい, OC *ɢuds) : semantic + phonetic (OC *ɢuds).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character いい
Reading # 1/1
Initial (こえ) うん (35)
Final (いん) ほろ (21)
Tone (調しらべ) Departing (H)
Openness (ひらきあい) Closed
Division (ひとし) III
Fanqie とうときり
Baxter hjw+jH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʉiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɨiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuəiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦujH/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuəiH/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭwəiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/we̯iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character いい
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ hjw+jH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[ɢ]ʷə[t]-s/
English say, tell, call

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 いい
Reading # 1/1
No. 12943
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
たい
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢuds/

Definitions

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いい

  1. to say; to tell
  2. to call; to name
  3. meaning; sense
  4. a surname

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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いい

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. reason
  2. origin
  3. history
  4. oral tradition

Readings

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Korean

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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いい (eumhun 고할 (gohal wi))

  1. say
  2. tell

Etymology 2

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Verb

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いい (eumhun 이를 (ireul wi))

  1. call
  2. name
  3. be called

Vietnamese

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Han character

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いい: Hán Nôm readings: vị

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