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[edit] Translingual

shinjitai

simplified

traditional

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (water) + phonetic 

The Old Chinese word is believed to have been pronounced very much like 每, with an m- initial. Baxter-Sagart reconstruct the Old Chinese as *m̥ˤəʔ; compare with 每 *mˤəʔ.

Appears with (2 dots) in Chinese, yielding , but with simplified form (1 cross stroke) in Japanese shinjitai, yielding = 氵 + . These are however encoded with the same Unicode character – see Han unification.

Stroke order

[edit] Han character

(radical 85 +7 in Chinese, 水+6 in Japanese, in Chinese 10 strokes, in Japanese 9 strokes, cangjie input 水人田卜 (EOWY), four-corner 38157)

  1. sea, ocean
  2. maritime

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 625, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17450
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1023, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1627, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6D77

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

(jyutping hoi2, Yale hoi2)


[edit] Hmong

[edit] Hanzi

  1. ocean, sea

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Noun

(hiragana うみ, romaji umi)

  1. sea
  2. beach

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

(hangeul , revised hae, McCune-Reischauer hae, Yale hay)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Hanzi

(pinyin hǎi (hai3), Wade-Giles hai3)

[edit] Compounds


[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

(*xə̌i)


[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

(hải, hẩy, hấy)

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