霙

霙 U+9719, 霙 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9719 ← 霘 [U+9718] CJK Unified Ideographs 霚 → [U+971A]

Translingual

Han character

霙 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨あめ+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 一いち月がつ廿にじゅう中大ちゅうだい (MBTLK), four-corner 1053₀, composition ⿱雨あめ英えい)

1. sleet

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1376, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42350
• Dae Jaweon: page 1885, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4066, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9719

Chinese

trad.		霙
simp. #		霙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (央ひさし) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
鴦	*qaːŋ, *qaŋ
佒	*qaːŋ
咉	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
眏	*qaːŋ
姎	*qaːŋ, *qaːŋʔ
坱	*qaːŋʔ
映うつ	*qaːŋʔ, *qraŋs
泱	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋ
盎	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
駚	*qaːŋʔ, *qaŋʔ
軮	*qaːŋʔ
醠	*qaːŋʔ, *qaːŋs
央ひさし	*qaŋ
秧	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ
殃	*qaŋ
鞅	*qaŋ, *qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
鉠	*qaŋ, *qraŋ
雵	*qaŋ
胦	*qaŋ, *qroːŋ
柍	*qaŋʔ
詇	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs, *qraŋs
岟	*qaŋʔ
炴	*qaŋʔ
怏	*qaŋʔ, *qaŋs
紻	*qaŋʔ
英えい	*qraŋ
瑛あきら	*qraŋ
霙	*qraŋ
韺	*qraŋ
媖	*qraŋ
渶	*qraŋ
鶧	*qraŋ
楧	*qraŋ
暎	*qraŋs

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-p(w)am (“to freeze; snow”) (provisionally reconstructed) (STEDT).

Insides Sinitic, 霙 (OC *ʔraŋ) is cognate with 雱 (OC *pʰˁaŋ) "heavy snowfall", 冰 (OC *p.rəŋ) & 凌りょう (OC *[r]əŋ ~ p.rəŋ) (both meaning "ice"), & possibly also 凝しこり (OC [ŋ](r)əŋ) "to congeal" (STEDT; Baxter and Sagart, 2014);

Outsides Sinitic, cognate with Proto-Tani *pam (“snow”), Japhug jpɣom (“to freeze”), tɤjpɣom (“ice”) (STEDT; Zhang, Jacques, and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ying
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jang, 'jaeng

Rime
Character	霙	霙
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲こえ)	影かげ (34)	影かげ (34)
Final (韻いん)	陽ひ (105)	庚かのえ (111)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	於良りょう切きり	於驚おどろき切きり
Baxter	'jang	'jaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨɐŋ/	/ʔˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɐŋ/	/ʔᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiɑŋ/	/ʔiaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨaŋ/	/ʔiajŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔiaŋ/	/ʔiɐŋ/
Wang Li	/ĭaŋ/	/ĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯aŋ/	/ʔi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yāng	yīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joeng1	jing1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qraŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	霙
Reading #	1/1
No.	14512
Phonetic component	央ひさし
Rime group	陽ひ
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	霙
Old Chinese	/*qraŋ/
Notes	見み韓かん詩し外そと傳つて

Definitions

霙

1. (literary) snowflake

   • 凡草木くさき花はな多おお五ご出で，雪ゆき花はな獨どく六ろく出で，雪ゆき花はな曰霙。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     凡草木くさき花はな多おお五ご出で，雪ゆき花はな独どく六ろく出で，雪ゆき花はな曰霙。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Taiping Yulan (Readings of the Taiping Era), 977 – 983 CE

     Fán cǎomù huā duō wǔ chū, xuěhuā dú liù chū, xuěhuā yuē yīng [Pinyin]

     Ordinarily, most plants' flowers have five petals; only snow flowers have six petals. Snow flowers are called snowflakes.

   • 晚ばん雨あめ纖纖變へん玉たま霙 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     晚ばん雨あめ纤纤变玉たま霙 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 蘇そ軾 Su Shi,《雪ゆき夜よる独どく宿やど柏かしわ仙せん庵あん》"Staying Alone in the Cypress Immortal Hermitage during a Snowy Night"

     Wǎnyǔ xiānxiān biàn yùyīng [Pinyin]

     The evening raindrops, fine and graceful, become jade-like snowflakes

2. (literary) sleet

Japanese

Kanji

霙

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)、よう (yō)
• Kun: みぞれ (mizore, 霙)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
霙
みぞれ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みぞれ [mìzóré] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [mʲizo̞ɾe̞]

Noun

霙(みぞれ) • (mizore) 

1. sleet

Korean

Hanja

霙 • (yeong) (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune–Reischauer yŏng, Yale eyng)

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