異

See also 异, 畀, and 暴

Translingual

simpl.		异
trad.		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+6, 11 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, jyutping ji6, 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)