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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Cantonese

Hanzi

伊 (Jyutping ji1, Yale yi1)

1. he, she, it, this

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Japanese

Kanji

伊

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

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

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Wikipedia ^cmn

Hanzi

伊 (Pinyin yī (yi1), Wade-Giles i¹)

1. third person pronoun (uncommon)
2. he, she, this, that (uncommon)
3. abbreviation of 伊拉克 (Iraq) or 伊朗 (Iran)

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Min Nan

Pronoun

伊 (traditional and simplified, POJ i)

1. third person pronoun
2. he, she, it

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Vietnamese

Han character

伊 (y, ì, huy)

References

• Nom Foundation