伊

Translingual

Han character

伊 (radical 9 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人尸大 (OSK), four-corner 2725₇, composition ⿰亻尹)

1. him, her - third person pronoun (less common in Mandarin, used in Shanghainese, Min Nan)
2. he, she, this, that (less common in Mandarin)

Descendants

• イ

References

• KangXi: page 95, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 432
• Dae Jaweon: page 202, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 126, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4F0A

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		伊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹
• Min Nan (POJ): i
• Wu (WT Romanisation): hhi (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Wade-Giles: i¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
    • Tâi-lô: i
    • IPA (Taipei): /i⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i³⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: hhi (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /ɦi²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (伊, reconstructed)
Character (伊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 脂 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 於脂切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiɪ/	/ʔi/	/ʔi/	/ʔi/	/ʔi/	/i/	/ʔjɪ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (伊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
伊								yī								‹ ʔjij ›								/*ʔij/								this
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
伊					15296					尹					脂					1					伊					/*qlil/					說文古文死聲，小徐雲俗本作尹聲

Pronoun

伊

1. (chiefly Min Nan, Wu) he, she, it, this

   儂來找我兒子，伊正好勿拉海，對勿起。 [Shanghainese, trad.]

   侬来找我儿子，伊正好勿拉海，对勿起。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   I am sorry that you come to see my son, but he is not present now

Synonyms

• (literary, Mandarin) 他 ("he"), 她 ("she"), 它 ("it")
• (vernacular, Cantonese) 佢, 渠

Proper noun

伊

1. A surname​. Yi
2. abbreviation of 伊拉克 (Iraq) or 伊朗 (Iran)

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Japanese

Kanji

伊

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: い (i)
• Kun: これ (kore), かれ (kare), ただ (tada)

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Korean

Hanja

伊 (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune-Reischauer yi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

伊 (y, ì, huy)

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References

• Nom Foundation