異

See also: 异, 畀, and 暴
異 U+7570, 異
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7570
← 畯
[U+756F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 畱 →
[U+7571]
異 U+F962, 異
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F962
← 率
[U+F961] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 北 →
[U+F963]
異 U+2F938, 異
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F938
← 𤲒
[U+2F937] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 𢆟 →
[U+2F939]

Translingual

Han character

異 (radical 102, 田+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田廿金 (WTC), four-corner 60801, composition ⿱田共)

  1. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №65

Derived characters

References

Chinese

trad. 異
simp. 异*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 異
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (異) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
禩 *ljɯʔ
異 *lɯɡs
潩 *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ
廙 *lɯɡs, *lɯɡ
趩 *l̥ʰɯɡ
瀷 *l̥ʰjɯɡ, *lɯɡ
翼 *lɯɡ
熼 *lɯɡ

Ideogram (指事) – a man with a mask (田) over his face. Possible interpretations:

  • Strange, bizarre — "uncommon".
  • Different face — "different".

Compare 鬼 (“demon”), where the 田 also derives from a face.

Modern form is graphically 田 + 共, though this is not the etymology.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 異
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊吏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ieH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jɨH/
Li
Rong		 /iəH/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 異
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yiH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢ(r)ək-s/
English different

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 異
Reading # 1/1
No. 15102
Phonetic
component		 異
Rime
group		 代
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 異
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯɡs/
Notes 金文異象雙手護住頭所頂物爲戴翼初文

Definitions

異

  1. different; other
  2. uncommon; unusual; special; strange; surprising
  3. to distinguish; to separate

Synonyms

  • (different): 殊 (shū), 差 (chā)
  • (unusual): 奇 (qí), 怪 (guài)

Antonyms

  • 同 (tóng, “same”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

異

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. different, other, hetero-
  2. uncommon, special
  3. curious, odd

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

異 (dị)

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