匿

Translingual

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匿
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
暱	*niɡ
慝	*n̥ʰɯːɡ
匿	*nɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *nɯɡ) : semantic 匸 + phonetic 若 (OC *nja, *njaʔ, *njaɡ).

Han character

匿 (Kangxi radical 23, 匸+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 尸廿大口 (STKR), four-corner 7171₆, composition ⿷匸若)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 155, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2690
• Dae Jaweon: page 347, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 86, character 12
• Unihan data for U+533F

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Chinese

trad.		匿
simp. #		匿

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nik¹ / nik⁶ / nei¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lia̍k / le̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nì
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nì
    • Wade–Giles: ni⁴
    • Yale: nì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nih
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nik¹ / nik⁶ / nei¹
    • Yale: nīk / nihk / nēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nik⁷ / nik⁹ / nei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: nig¹ / nig⁶ / néi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɪk̚⁵/, /nɪk̚²/, /nei̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: lia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: liak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /liak̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: le̍k
    • Tâi-lô: li̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lek
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /liɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪk̚¹²¹/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 匿
Mandarin	Beijing	/ni⁵¹/
	Harbin	/ni⁵³/
	Tianjin	/ni⁵³/
	Jinan	/ȵi²¹/
	Qingdao	/ni⁴²/ /mi²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/ni³¹²/
	Xi'an	/ni²¹/
	Xining	/mji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/ni¹³/
	Lanzhou	/ȵi¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ȵi²¹³/
	Wuhan	/ni²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ȵie³¹/
	Guiyang	/ni²¹/
	Kunming	/ni³¹/
	Nanjing	/liʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/liəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/nəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ȵiʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/niəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵiɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ȵiəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ȵiəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/ȵai²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/ni²²/
	Tunxi
Xiang	Changsha	/ȵi²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ȵi²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/nit̚⁵/
	Taoyuan	/nit̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/nek̚⁵/
	Nanning	/nek̚⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/nek̚⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/lik̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/niʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ni²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/nek̚⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/nek̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nrik

Rime
Character	匿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	職 (134)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	女力切
Baxter	nrik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/niek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳik̚/
Li Rong	/niək̚/
Wang Li	/nĭək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni̯ək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nr[ə]k/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nì
Middle Chinese	‹ nrik ›
Old Chinese	/*nr[ə]k/
English	conceal
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	匿
Reading #	1/1
No.	9481
Phonetic component	匿
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	匿
Old Chinese	/*nɯɡ/
Notes	說文若聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匿

1. to flee
2. to hide; to go into hiding
3. to conceal; to hold back
4. secretly

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tè (te⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄜˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tè
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tè
    • Wade–Giles: tʻê⁴
    • Yale: tè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: teh
    • Palladius: тэ (tɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɤ⁵¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 匿

1. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 慝 (tè, “evil; wicked; wicked thoughts”).

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Japanese

Kanji

匿

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: にょく (nyoku)
• Kan-on: じょく (joku)^{←ぢよく (dyoku, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: とく (toku, Jōyō)
• Kun: かくれる (kakureru, 匿れる); かくす (kakusu, 匿す); かくまう (kakumau, 匿う)

Noun

匿(とく) • (toku) 

1. shelter
2. hide

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Korean

Hanja

匿 • (nik) (hangeul 닉, revised nik, McCune–Reischauer nik)

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Vietnamese

Han character

匿 (nặc, nác, nắc, nước)

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