霗

See also: 零

霗 U+9717, 霗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9717 ← 霖 [U+9716] CJK Unified Ideographs 霘 → [U+9718]

Translingual

Han character

霗 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+8, 16 strokes, cangjie input 一月水人戈 (MBEOI), four-corner 1013₂, composition ⿱雨泠)

Related characters

• 零 (Orthodox form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1376, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 49867
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 6, page 4069, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9717

Chinese

Glyph origin

The original form of this character is 𩆼, a historical variant of 零 found in the Song dynasty Chinese dictionary, Jiyun 《集韻 (Jíyùn)》.

The character 𩆼 was then erroneously printed as 霗 (霝 (líng) mistakenly substituted by 雨) in the Japanese Dai Kan-Wa Jiten and subsequently found in Zhongwen Da Cidian 《中文大辭典》, a dictionary published in Taiwan from 1962 to 1968 based on the character found in the Japanese Dai Kan-Wa Jiten.

This character can also be found in the Zhonghua Zihai 《中華字海》 which cites Jiyun 《集韻 (Jíyùn)》 as its source of reference.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 霗 – see 零 (“fragmentary; scattered; fraction; remainder; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 零).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04475-004-1#26