異

See also 异, 畀, and 暴

Translingual

simplified	异
traditional	異

Alternative forms

• 異 – Unicode z-code variants at points U+7570 and U+F962

Etymology

Ideogram (指事) – a man with a mask (田) over his face (different face) – see Chinese Etymology: 異, by Richard Sears.

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

Modern form is graphically 田 + 共, though this is not the etymology.　Unrelated to visually similar 暴.

Han character

異 (radical 102 田+7, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田廿金 (WTC), four-corner 6080₁, composition ⿱田共)

1. different, unusual, strange

Descendants

• 冀, 翼, 戴, 糞, 㔴, 潩, 廙, 趩, 䔬

Synonyms

• 怪, 差

References

• KangXi: page 763, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21866
• Dae Jaweon: page 1173, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2540, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7570
• Unihan data for U+F962

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Cantonese

Hanzi

異 (simplified 异, Yale yi6)

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Japanese

Kanji

異 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. uncommon
2. curious

Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: こと (koto), ことなる (kotonaru), あやしい (ayashii)

Compounds

異義 異議 異教 異郷 異境 異才 異彩 異種 異趣 異状 異常 異色 異人 (いじん, ijin, “foreigner, stranger”) 異国人 (いこくじん, ikokujin, “foreigner, stranger”)

異相 異俗 異存 異端 異途 異同 異動 異物 異母 異邦 (いほう, ihō, “foreign country”) 異邦人 (いほうじん, ihōjin, “foreigner, stranger”) 異様 異例 変異

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Korean

Hanja

異 (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

異 (simplified 异, pinyin yì (yi4), Wade-Giles i⁴)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

異 (*iə̀)

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Vietnamese

Han character

異 (dị)