徽

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 微 + semantic 糸 (“cloth”)

Han character

徽 (radical 60 彳+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 竹人山火大 (HOUFK), four-corner 2824₀)

1. a badge
2. insignia

• When referring to the guqin zither:

1. the 13 white dots made of mother-of-pearl inlaid onto the surface board marking the harmonic positions
2. same as 暉 (variant)

References

• KangXi: page 372, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10267
• Dae Jaweon: page 699, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 849, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5FBD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

徽 (Yale fai1)

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Japanese

Kanji

徽

Readings

• On: き (ki)
• Kun: よい (yoi), しるし (shirushi)

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Korean

Hanja

徽 (hangeul 휘, revised hwi, McCune-Reischauer hwi, Yale hwi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

徽 (pinyin huī (hui1), yì (yi4), Wade-Giles hui¹, i⁴)

Compounds

• 安徽

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Vietnamese

Han character

徽 (huy)