繄

繄 U+7E44, 繄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E44 ← 繃 [U+7E43] CJK Unified Ideographs 繅 → [U+7E45]

Translingual

Han character

繄 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸いと+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸しかばね水すい女おんな戈ほこ火ひ (SEVIF) or 難なん尸しかばね水すい女おんな戈ほこ (XSEVI), four-corner 7790₃, composition ⿱殹糸いと)

1. be
2. particle
3. sigh, alas

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27853
• Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3442, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7E44

Chinese

trad.		繄
simp. #		繄

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳かげ	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医い	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫い	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹ / ai¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹ / ai¹
    • Yale: yī / āi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹ / ai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹ / ei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/, /ɐi̯⁵⁵/

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

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej, 'ejH

Rime
Character	繄	繄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)
Final (韻いん)	齊ひとし (39)	齊ひとし (39)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	IV	IV
Fanqie	烏がらす奚切きり	於計けい切きり
Baxter	'ej	'ejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/	/ʔɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/	/ʔɛjH/
Li Rong	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Wang Li	/iei/	/ieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiei/	/ʔieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1	jai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/, /*qiːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	繄	繄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15049	15055
Phonetic component	医い	医い
Rime group	脂あぶら	脂あぶら
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖	翳かげ
Old Chinese	/*qiː/	/*qiːs/

Definitions

繄

1. Meaningless sentence-initial particle

   Synonyms: 唯ただ, 維／维, 惟おもんみ (wéi)

   爾なんじ有ゆう母はは遺のこ，繄我わが獨どく無む！ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   尔有ゆう母はは遗，繄我わが独どく无！ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

   Ěr yǒu mǔ wèi, yī wǒ dú wú! [Pinyin]

   You have a mother to give [the broth to]; I alone do not!

Compounds

• 繄袼

 

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育きょういく部ぶ異體いたい字じ字典じてん), B03457
• “繄”, 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

繄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei); い (i)
• Kun: ほこばくろ (hokobakuro)

Korean

Hanja

繄 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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