影

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Noun 3.1.1.1 Derived terms 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Noun 3.2.2 Kanji 3.2.2.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

Stroke order

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 景 + semantic 彡.

[edit] Han character

影 (radical 59 彡+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 日火竹竹竹 (AFHHH), four-corner 6292₂, composition ⿰景彡)

1. shadow
2. image, reflection
3. photograph

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• KangXi: page 364, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10019
• Dae Jaweon: page 684, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 857, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5F71

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

影 (Yale ying2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Etymology 1

[edit] Noun

影 (hiragana かが, romaji kaga)

1. light
2. a shape or form reflected in light
3. a shadow

[edit] Derived terms

• 鏡 (kagami)

[edit] Etymology 2

kaga + suffix i > kage.

[edit] Noun

影 (hiragana かげ, romaji kage)

1. light
2. a shape or form reflected in light
3. shadow

[edit] Kanji

影 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: えい (ei), よう (yō)
• Kun: かげ (kage)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

影 (hangeul 영, revised yeong, McCune-Reischauer yŏng, Yale yeng)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

影 (pinyin yǐng (ying3), Wade-Giles ying³)

1. shadow
2. image
3. photograph

[edit] Compounds

• 电影 : a film; a motion picture; a movie

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

影 (*qiæ̌ng)

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[edit] Vietnamese

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影 (ảnh)