疑

Translingual

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – old man with cane asking for directions, doubting his way (a figure with a cane in one hand, head a large mouth).

Current form is radically abstracted, with elements varying greatly in intermediate scripts – graphically 匕 + 矢 on left, マ + 疋 on right.

Han character

疑 (radical 103 疋+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心大弓戈人 (PKNIO), four-corner 2748₁)

1. doubt, question, suspect

Derived characters

• 擬, 儗, 礙, 凝, 癡

References

• KangXi: page 768, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22007
• Dae Jaweon: page 1178, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2751, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7591

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Cantonese

Hanzi

疑 (Yale yi4)

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Japanese

Kanji

疑 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぎ (gi), きょう (kyō)
• Kun: うたがう (utagau), うたがい (utagai), うたがわしい (utagawashii)

Compounds

• 疑心 (ぎしん, gishin)
• 被疑者 (ひぎしゃ, higisha)
• 懐疑 (かいぎ, kaigi)
• 疑問 (ぎもん, gimon)
• 疑問符 (ぎもんふ, gimonfu)
• 質疑 (しつぎ, shitsugi)
• 容疑 (ようぎ, yōgi)
• 容疑者 (ようぎしゃ, yōgisha)
• 疑惧 (ぎく, giku)
• 疑懼 (ぎく, giku)

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Korean

Hanja

疑 (hangeul 의, 응, revised ui, eung, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, ŭng, Yale uy, ung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

疑 (pinyin nǐ (ni3), níng (ning2), yí (yi2), Wade-Giles ni³, ning², i²)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

疑 (*ngiə)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疑 (nghi)