彝

See also: 彛 and 彞
彝 U+5F5D, 彝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F5D
← 彜
[U+5F5C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 彞 →
[U+5F5E]

Translingual

Han character

彝 (radical 58 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 27449, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)

  1. Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
  2. tripod, wine vessel
  3. rule

References

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 彝
alt. forms 彞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彝
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意)  and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *li) : phonetic 彑 (OC *krads, “head”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + semantic 糸 (“silk”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”)- a sacrificial bird with its wings tied is held with two hands, the head of which is represented by '彑', the body of which is now represented by '米' (no connection to the meaning of '米'), the string which ties the wing represented by '糸' and the hands represented by '廾'. Or instead of a bird, a slave. The '彑' component was mentioned as a phonetic in Shuowen.

Pronunciation

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彝
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l][ə]j/
English ritual vase

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 彝
Reading # 1/1
No. 14908
Phonetic
component		 彝
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 姨
Old
Chinese		 /*li/

Definitions

彝

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Compounds

  • 伯彝
  • 功銘鼎彝／功铭鼎彝
  • 匪彝
  • 宗彝
  • 彝倫／彝伦
  • 彝倫攸斁／彝伦攸斁
  • 彝劇／彝剧
  • 方彝
  • 朱彝尊
  • 民彝
  • 秉彝
  • 蜼彝
  • 鼎彝

Japanese

Kanji

彝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

彝 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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