沴

沴 U+6CB4, 沴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB4 ← 河 [U+6CB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 沵 → [U+6CB5]

Translingual

Han character

沴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水人竹竹 (EOHH), four-corner 3812₂, composition ⿰氵㐱)

1. foul and poisonous in confusion
2. out of harmony

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17246
• Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1589, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6CB4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沴
alternative forms		沵 𣳅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疹) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	*nlanʔ, *l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	*ʔl'anʔ, *kljɯnʔ
跈	*nlɯːnʔ, *l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	*rɯn, *kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	*l'ɯns, *kljɯnʔ
畛	*kljɯn, *kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	*kljɯnʔ, *klɯnʔ
袗	*kljɯnʔ, *kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lì
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lì
    • Wade–Giles: li⁴
    • Yale: lì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶
    • Yale: leuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: lejH

Rime
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎計切
Baxter	lejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/leiH/
Pan Wuyun	/leiH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛjH/
Li Rong	/leiH/
Wang Li	/lieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rɯːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
No.	17083
Phonetic component	疹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	麗
Old Chinese	/*rɯːls/

Definitions

沴

1. (literary, of the flow of water) not smooth; obstructed
2. (literary) foul and poisonous air; miasma
3. (literary) out of harmony

   • 陰陽之氣有沴，其心閒而無事 [MSC, trad.]
     阴阳之气有沴，其心闲而无事 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 莊子·大宗師, translated by James Legge

     yīnyáng zhī qì yǒu 沴, qí xīn xián ér wúshì [Pinyin]

     His breath came and went in gasps: yet he was easy in his mind, and made no trouble of his condition

4. (literary) disaster caused by such an imbalance

Compounds

• 歷沴／历沴
• 沴孽
• 沴氣／沴气
• 災沴／灾沴
• 百沴
• 眚沴 (shěnglì)

 

Japanese

Kanji

沴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. effluvium; miasma
2. malaria

Readings

• On (unclassified): れい (rei); らい (rai); てん (ten); でん (den)
• Kun: もこなう (mokonau)