叡あきら

See also: 睿

叡あきら U+53E1, 叡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-53E1 ← 叠 [U+53E0] CJK Unified Ideographs 叢くさむら → [U+53E2]

Translingual

Han character

叡あきら (Kangxi radical 29, 又また+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜ぼく山水さんすい (YUE), four-corner 2764₀, composition ⿰睿又また)

Derived characters

• 𧾩, 𡓝

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 167, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3214
• Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 402, character 2
• Unihan data for U+53E1

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 叡あきら
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (睿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
睿	*ɢʷeds
叡あきら	*ɢʷeds
璿	*sɢʷen
壡	*sɢʷen
濬	*sqʰʷins

Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) : 𣦼 + abbreviated 谷たに (“valley”) + 目め (“eye”)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 叡あきら – see 睿 (“shrewd; astute; clever; keen; farsighted; emperor; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 睿).

Compounds

• 叡智えいち／睿智 (ruìzhì)
• 叡知えいち／睿知 (ruìzhì)
• 韋叡樹じゅ麾／韦睿树麾

 

References

• “叡あきら”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

叡あきら

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)
• Kun: かしこい (kashikoi, 叡あきらい)

Compounds

Compounds

• 叡あきら(えい)智さとし(ち) (eichi)
• 比ひ(ひ)叡あきら(えい)山やま(ざん) (Hieizan)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
叡あきら
えい Jinmeiyō
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 叡あきら (MC ywejH).

The 漢音かんおん (kan'on) pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e̞ː]

Affix

叡あきら(えい) • (ei) 

1. clever; smart; sharp
2. (prefix) emperor's; imperial

Korean

Hanja

叡あきら (eum 예 (ye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

叡あきら: Hán Việt readings: duệ (俞(dũ)芮(nhuế)切きり(thiết))

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