翼

翼 U+7FFC, 翼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FFC
← 翻
[U+7FFB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 翽 →
[U+7FFD]

Translingual

Han character

翼 (radical 124, 羽+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸一田廿金 (SMWTC), four-corner 17801, composition ⿱羽異)

References

  • KangXi: page 959, character 34
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28801
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1406, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3356, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+7FFC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 翼

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lɯɡ) : semantic 羽 + phonetic 異 (OC *lɯɡs).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lak ~ C-jak (“hand, arm”). Cognate with Chinese 腋 (OC *laːɡ) (“armpit”), Tibetan ལག་པ (lag pa, “hand, arm”), Burmese လက် (lak, “hand, arm”)

Pronunciation

Note:
  • sĭk - vernacular;
  • ĭk - literary.
Note:
  • si̍t - vernacular;
  • e̍k/ia̍k - literary.
Note:
  • sig8 - vernacular;
  • êg8 - literary.
Rime
Character 翼
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 職 (134)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與職切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jɨk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iek̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jik̚/
Li
Rong		 /iək̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 翼
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yik ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷrəp/ (dialect: *-p > *-k)
English wing

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 翼
Reading # 1/1
No. 15108
Phonetic
component		 異
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 弋
Old
Chinese		 /*lɯɡ/

Definitions

翼

  1. wing
    唯龍無翼者，升則乘雲 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    唯龙无翼者，升则乘云 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 論衡·道虛篇
    wéi lóng wú yì zhě, shēng zé chéngyún [Pinyin]
    only dragons do not have wings; when they ascend they ride upon the clouds
  2. fin (on fish)
  3. wing (of an airplane)
  4. (figuratively) wing; flank
    右翼  ―  yòuyì  ―  right-wing (politics); right flank (military)
  5. to assist

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

翼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. wing

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
翼
つばさ
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, rōmaji tsubasa)

  1. wing
    • 2015 September 19, “輝き銀ぎんの天空船スカイシップ－レオ号ごう [Silvery Skyship – Mk. Leo]”, in EXTRA PACK 2015 (in Japanese), Konami:
      輝 (き)銀 (ぎん)の翼 (つばさ)は栄 (えい)光 (こう)の印 (ひるし)。
      その証 (あかし)は言 (こと)葉 (ば)によって語 (かた)られる。
      Kigin no tsubasa wa eikō no hirushi.
      Sono akashi wa kotoba ni yotte katarareru.
      Her silvery wings display her glory.
      The proof of her glories are told in legend.

Proper noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, rōmaji Tsubasa)

  1. A male given name

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
翼
よく
Grade: S
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 翼 (MC jɨk̚, “wing”).

Pronunciation

Noun

翼 (hiragana よく, rōmaji yoku)

  1. wing

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

翼 • (ik) (hangeul 익, McCune–Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

  1. wings
  2. fins on fish
  3. shelter

Vietnamese

Han character

翼 (dực)

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