灰

灰 U+7070, 灰
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7070
← 灯
[U+706F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 灱 →
[U+7071]
灰 U+2F835, 灰
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F835
← 𠨬
[U+2F834] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 及 →
[U+2F836]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

灰 (radical 86, 火+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大火 (KF), four-corner 71289, composition ⿸𠂇火 (GTKV) or ⿸厂火 (J))

See also

References

  • KangXi: page 665, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18859
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2188, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7070

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 灰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (灰) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脄 *mɯːs, *mɯː
盔 *km̥ʰɯː
詼 *km̥ʰlɯː
恢 *km̥ʰɯː
灰 *hmɯː

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) – fire that can be touched with the hand (ash). 又 has been modified to 𠂇; compare 友 (“friend”), 右 (“right”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Xiamen, Quanzhou:
    • he/her - vernacular;
    • hoe - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 灰
Mandarin Beijing /xuei⁵⁵/
Harbin /xuei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /xuei²¹/
Jinan /xuei²¹³/
Qingdao /xue²¹³/
Zhengzhou /xuei²⁴/
Xi'an /xuei²¹/
Xining /xuɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xuei⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /xuei³¹/
Ürümqi /xuei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /xuei⁵⁵/
Chengdu /xuei⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xuei⁵⁵/
Kunming /xuei⁴⁴/
Nanjing /xuəi³¹/
Hefei /xue²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /xuei¹¹/
Pingyao /xuæ¹³/
Hohhot /xuei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /hue⁵³/
Suzhou /hue̞⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /hui³³/
Wenzhou /fai³³/
Hui Shexian /xuɛ³¹/
Tunxi /xuə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /fei³³/
Xiangtan /ɸəi³³/
Gan Nanchang /fɨi⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /foi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /foi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /fui⁵³/
Nanning /fui⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /fui⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hue⁵⁵/
/he⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /huoi⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xo⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hue³³/
/hui³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hui²³/
/hu²³/
/hue²³/
Rime
Character 灰
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 呼恢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /huʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /huoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /xuɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /hwəj/
Li
Rong		 /xuᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /xuɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /xuɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huī
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 灰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 huī
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ xwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m̥ˤə/
English ashes

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 灰
Reading # 1/1
No. 5414
Phonetic
component		 灰
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 灰
Old
Chinese		 /*hmɯː/

Definitions

灰

  1. lime; mortar
    • 灰泥 (huīní, “plaster, mortar”)
    • 石灰 (shíhuī, “lime”)
    • 灰岩 (“limestone”)
  2. dust; ash
  3. grey
    • 灰色 (huīsè, “gray color”)
  4. disheartened
  5. The tenth day of the month in Chinese telegraph messages

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 灰 – see 烌 (“(Min Nan) dust; ash”).
(This character, 灰, is a variant form of 烌.)

Japanese

Kanji

灰

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. ashes
  2. puckery juice
  3. cremate

Readings

Noun

灰 (hiragana はい, rōmaji hai, historical hiragana はひ)

  1. ash
    塵 (ちり)は塵 (ちり)に、灰 (はい)は灰 (はい)に
    chiri wa chiri ni, hai wa hai ni
    dust to dust, ashes to ashes

Korean

Hanja

灰 • (hoe) (hangeul 회, McCune–Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

  1. ashes
  2. dust
  3. lime
  4. mortar

Mulam

Noun

灰 (pu1)

  1. ash

Vietnamese

Han character

灰 (hôi, hoi, khôi, vôi, hui)

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