刵

刵 U+5235, 刵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5235 ← 刴 [U+5234] CJK Unified Ideographs 制 → [U+5236]

Translingual

Han character

刵 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+6, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 尸十中弓 (SJLN), four-corner 1240₀, composition ⿰耳刂)

Derived characters

• 𠗜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 139, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1960
• Dae Jaweon: page 315, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 332, character 14
• Unihan data for U+5235

Chinese

trad.		刵
simp. #		刵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
佴	*nɯːs, *njɯs
麛	*miː
弭	*mniʔ
渳	*mniʔ
葞	*mniʔ
髶	*njis, *njoŋ
聻	*nɯʔ
恥	*n̥ʰɯʔ
咡	*njɯ, *njɯs
誀	*njɯ, *njɯs
耳	*njɯʔ
洱	*njɯʔ, *njɯs
駬	*njɯʔ
餌	*njɯs
珥	*njɯs
衈	*njɯs
毦	*njɯs
刵	*njɯs
眲	*njɯs, *rnɯːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): èr (er⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄦˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zi⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: èr
    • Zhuyin: ㄦˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: èr
    • Wade–Giles: êrh⁴
    • Yale: èr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ell
    • Palladius: эр (er)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁶
    • Yale: yih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: cī
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: nyiH

Rime
Character	刵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	仍吏切
Baxter	nyiH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵɨH/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵɨH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑieH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵɨH/
Li Rong	/ȵiəH/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭəH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	èr
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	刵
Reading #	1/1
No.	2792
Phonetic component	耳
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	餌
Old Chinese	/*njɯs/

Definitions

刵

1. (historical) to cut off the ear as a punishment

See also

• 馘 (guó)
• 劓 (yì)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “刵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

Japanese

Kanji

刵

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. the practice of cutting off an ear as punishment

Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)
• Kun: みみきり (mimikiri)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
刵
みみきり Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 刵 – see the following entry.

【耳切みみきり】 [noun] (historical) the practice of cutting off an ear as punishment Alternative spelling 聝

(This term, 刵, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

刵 (eum 이 (i))

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