翼

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 羽 + phonetic 異

Han character

翼 (radical 124 羽+12 in Chinese, 羽+11 in Japanese, in Chinese 18 strokes, in Japanese 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸一田廿金 (SMWTC), four-corner 1780₁, composition ⿱羽異)

References

• KangXi: page 959, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28801
• Dae Jaweon: page 1406, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3356, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7FFC

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		翼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): yi̍t
• Min Nan (POJ): sit / e̍k
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhiq (T5)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik⁶
    • Yale: yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi̍t
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /jit̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sit / e̍k
    • Tâi-lô: sit / i̍k
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɕit̚³²/, /ɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɕit̚³²/, /ɪk̚¹²¹/
  • Note: e̍k is literary (文).
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhiq (T5)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦi̯ɪʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (翼, reconstructed)
Character (翼), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 以 (36) Final: 職 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 與職切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/jɨk̚/	/i̯ək̚/	/iək̚/	/jɨk̚/	/jik̚/	/jĭək̚/	/iek̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (翼, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
翼								yì								‹ yik ›								/*ɢʷrəp (dialect: *-p > *-k)/								wing
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
翼					15108					異					職					0					弋					/*lɯɡ/

Noun

翼

1. wing
2. fin (on fish)
3. shelter

Compounds

• 翼側／翼侧
• 翼翼

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Japanese

Kanji

翼

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: いき (iki)
• Kan’on: よく (yoku)
• Kun: つばさ (tsubasa)
• Nanori: たすく (tasuku)

Compounds

• 翼衛
• 翼賛
• 翼室
• 翼成

Noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, romaji tsubasa)

1. wing (e.g. of a bird)

Proper noun

翼 (hiragana つばさ, romaji Tsubasa)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

翼 (ik) (hangeul 익, McCune-Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翼 (dực, dức)

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