咿

Translingual

Han character

咿 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口人尸大 (ROSK), four-corner 6700₀, composition ⿰口伊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3579
• Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 618, character 7
• Unihan data for U+54BF

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Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
芛	*ɢʷelʔ, *ɢʷid
伊	*qlil
咿	*qlil
蛜	*qlil
笋	*sɢʷinʔ
尹	*ɢʷlinʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qlil) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 伊 (OC *qlil).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咿
alternative forms		吚

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): ĭ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jij

Rime
Character	咿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於脂切
Baxter	'jij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔi/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔi/
Li Rong	/ʔi/
Wang Li	/i/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ij/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qlil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	咿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjij ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]ij/
English	forced laugh
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	咿
Reading #	1/1
No.	15297
Phonetic component	尹
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	伊
Old Chinese	/*qlil/
Notes	見楚辭卜居

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咿

1. Used in onomatopoeic words.
2. ^† to moan in pain or grief

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		咿

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 咿

1. (Cantonese) (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 依 (“this; these”).

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Japanese

Kanji

咿

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: つくりわらい (tsukuriwarai, 咿い)

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Korean

Hanja

咿 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i)

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