縊

See also: 缢

縊 U+7E0A, 縊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E0A ← 縉 [U+7E09] CJK Unified Ideographs 縋すが → [U+7E0B]

Translingual

Han character

縊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸いと+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女おんな火ひ廿にじゅう金きん廿にじゅう (VFTCT), four-corner 2891₇, composition ⿰糹益えき)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 933, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27738
• Dae Jaweon: page 1372, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3439, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E0A

Chinese

trad.		縊
simp.		缢
alternative forms		螠
螠: especially in 縊女 “pupa”

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (益えき) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
隘	*qreːɡs
賹	*qreːɡs
搤	*qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
縊	*qleːɡs, *qleɡs
螠	*qleɡs
謚	*ɢliɡs, *qleɡ
諡おくりな	*ɢliɡs
蠲	*kʷliːŋ
溢	*liɡ
鎰	*liɡ
齸	*lig, *qleg
貖	*qreːɡ
益えき	*qleɡ
嗌	*qleɡ
膉	*qleɡ
鷁	*ŋɡleːɡ
艗	*ŋɡleːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *qleːɡs, *qleɡs) : semantic 糸いと + phonetic 益えき (OC *qleɡ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan འཁྱིག་ ('khyig, “tie, fasten”), Burmese အစ် (ac, “throttle”) (Hill, 2017).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ai³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): it

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yid⁵

• Eastern Min (BUC): ié
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): è

  (Teochew, Peng'im): êg⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷iq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ai³
    • Yale: ai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: it
    • Hakka Romanization System: id`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: id⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yid⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /it̚¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ié
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɛ²¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: è
    • Tâi-lô: è
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ex
    • IPA (Xiamen): /e²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /e²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /e¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /e²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: êg⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ek
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ek̚²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷iq
    • MiniDict: ih^入いれ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴iq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iɪʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jieH, 'ejH

Rime
Character	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)
Final (韻いん)	支ささえ (11)	齊ひとし (39)
Tone (調しらべ)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	IV
Fanqie	於賜たまもの切きり	於計けい切きり
Baxter	'jieH	'ejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiᴇH/	/ʔeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɛH/	/ʔeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjɛH/	/ʔɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiə̆H/	/ʔɛjH/
Li Rong	/ʔieH/	/ʔeiH/
Wang Li	/ǐeH/	/ieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔie̯H/	/ʔieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji3	jai3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ[i]k-s/, /*q[i]k-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qleːɡs/, /*qleɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔejH ›	‹ ʔjieH ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁ[i]k-s/	/*q[i]k-s/
English	strangle	strangle
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	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15070	15071
Phonetic component	益えき	益えき
Rime group	賜たまもの	賜たまもの
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	翳かげ	縊
Old Chinese	/*qleːɡs/	/*qleɡs/

Definitions

縊

1. to hang; to strangle (to death)

Compounds

• 絞しぼ縊／绞缢 (jiǎoyì)
• 縊女／缢女 (yìnǚ)
• 縊死いし／缢死 (yìsǐ)
• 縊蟶／缢蛏 (yìchēng)
• 縊頸／缢颈 (yìjǐng)
• 自じ縊／自じ缢 (zìyì)

 

References

• “縊”, 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

縊

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. strangle

Readings

• Go-on: い (i); あい (ai)
• Kan-on: い (i); えい (ei)
• Kun: くびる (kubiru, 縊る); くびれる (kubireru, 縊くびれる)

See also

• 縊(くく)る (kukuru)
• 縊(くび)る (kubiru)
• 縊(くびれ)る (kubireru)
• 縊(わな)く (wanaku)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
縊
い Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 縊 (MC 'jieH|'ejH).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i]

Affix

縊(い) • (i) 

1. hang; strangle

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 縊(い)刑けい(けい) (ikei)
• 縊(い)痕あと(こん) (ikon)
• 縊(い)殺ころせ(さつ) (isatsu): strangling to death
• 縊(い)死し(し) (ishi)
• 縊(い)首くび(しゅ) (ishu)

Korean

Hanja

縊 • (aek, ui) (hangeul 액, 의, revised aek, ui, McCune–Reischauer aek, ŭi, Yale ayk, uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縊: Hán Nôm readings: ải

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