宜

See also: 宣 and 冝

宜 U+5B9C, 宜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B9C ← 宛 [U+5B9B] CJK Unified Ideographs 宝 → [U+5B9D]

Translingual

Han character

宜 (radical 40, 宀+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 十月一 (JBM), four-corner 3010₇, composition ⿱宀且)

References

• KangXi: page 284, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7111
• Dae Jaweon: page 561, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 920, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5B9C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宜
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu Slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts
Oracle bone script 60px j17573 60px j17574 j29132 j29133 j29134 j29135 j29136 j29137 j29138 j29139 j29140 j29141 j29142 j29143 j29144 j29145 j29146 j29147 j29148 j29149 j29150 j29151 j29152 j29153 j29154 j29155 j29156 j29157 j29158 j29159 j29160 j29161 j29162 j29163 j29164 j29165 j29166 j29167 j29168 j29169 j29170 j29171 j29172 j29173 j29174 j29175 j29176 j29177 j29178 j29179 j29180 Bronze inscriptions 60px b11667 60px b11668 60px b11669 60px b11670 60px b11671 60px b11672 60px b11673 60px b11674 60px b11675 60px b11676 60px b11677 60px b11678 60px b11679 60px b11680 60px b11681 60px b11682 60px b11683 Small seal script 60px s05257 60px s05258 60px s05259 Transcribed ancient scripts 60px L30237 60px L30238 60px L30239 60px L30240 60px L30241 60px L30242 60px L30243 60px L30244 60px L30245 60px L30246 60px L01684 60px L01685 60px L01686 60px L01687 60px L01688 60px L01689 60px L01690 60px L01691 60px L01692 60px L01693 60px L01694 60px L01695 60px L01696 60px L01697 60px L01698 60px L01699 60px L01700
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
多	*ʔl'aːl
哆	*ʔl'aːlʔ, *ʔl'aːls, *ʔr'aːls, *hr'aːl, *l̥ʰjaːlʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *l̥ʰjɯs
跢	*ʔl'aːls, *ʔl'aːds
痑	*ʔl'aːls, *l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːn
爹	*daːʔ, *tjaː
陊	*l'aːlʔ, *l'alʔ
橠	*naːlʔ
袲	*naːlʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *lal
奓	*ʔr'aːl, *ʔr'aːls
栘	*ɦljeːl, *lal
黟	*ʔleːl, *ʔlil
趍	*sʰlo, *l'al
誃	*l'al, *l̥ʰjalʔ
簃	*l'al, *lal
眵	*ʔljjal, *l̥ʰjal
恀	*ʔljalʔ, *l̥ʰjalʔ, *ɦljalʔ
侈	*l̥ʰjalʔ
姼	*l̥ʰjalʔ, *ɦljal, *ɦljalʔ
鉹	*l̥ʰjalʔ, *lal
垑	*l̥ʰjalʔ
袳	*l̥ʰjalʔ
卶	*l̥ʰjals, *hljals
宜	*ŋral
誼	*ŋrals
竩	*ŋrals
移	*lal
迻	*lal
扅	*lal
拸	*lal, *lalʔ
熪	*lal
謻	*lal
蛥	*ɢljad

Originally a Pictogram (象形) – two pieces of sacrificial meat put in a sacrifical altar.

Etymology

Cognate with 儀 (OC *ŋral, “ceremony; appearance”). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

  (Chengdu, SP): nyi²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngì / nì
• Min Bei (KCR): ngǐ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): gî

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ngi⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade–Giles: i2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ni
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nʲi²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngì / nì
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngiˇ / niˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi² / ni²
    • Sinological IPA: /ɲi¹¹/, /ni¹¹/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ngǐ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋi²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gî
    • Tâi-lô: gî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ɡi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɡi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ɡi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɡi²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ngi⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ngî
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋi⁵⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 宜
Mandarin	Beijing	/i³⁵/
	Harbin	/i⁵³/
	Tianjin	/i⁵³/
	Jinan	/i⁴²/
	Qingdao	/i⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/i⁴²/
	Xi'an	/ni²⁴/
	Xining	/ji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/i⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/i⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/i²¹³/
	Wuhan	/i²¹³/
	Chengdu	/ȵi³¹/ /i³¹/
	Guiyang	/ni²¹/ 老 /i²¹/ 新
	Kunming	/ni³¹/
	Nanjing	/i²⁴/
	Hefei	/zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/i¹¹/
	Pingyao	/i¹³/
	Hohhot	/i³¹/ /i⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵi²³/
	Suzhou	/ȵi¹³/
	Hangzhou	/ȵi²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ȵi³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/ni⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/ȵi⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/ȵi¹³/
	Xiangtan	/ȵi¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/ȵi⁴⁵/ ～春市 /i⁰/ 便～
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋi¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/ŋi¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/ji²¹/
	Nanning	/ni²¹/
	Hong Kong	/ji²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/gi³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/ŋie⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/ŋi²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/ŋĩ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/ŋi³¹/ /zi³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋˠiᴇ/

Rime
Character	宜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	魚羈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋjiə̆/
Li Rong	/ŋje/
Wang Li	/ŋǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ(r)aj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋral/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宜	宜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ ngje ›	‹ ngje ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋ(r)aj/	/*ŋ(r)aj/
English	sacrifice to the deity of the soil (K)	proper; should
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	宜
Reading #	1/1
No.	2677
Phonetic component	多
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	宜
Old Chinese	/*ŋral/
Notes	說文多省聲，古文從多。甲金文象俎加多， 多本象重肉，亦聲

Definitions

宜

1. appropriate; suitable; proper

   • 父母在，則宜圖婚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     父母在，则宜图婚。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《孔叢子》, 論書, Ch. 2

     Fùmǔ zài, zé yí tú hūn. [Pinyin]

     The approval of the parents makes a fitting marriage.

2. should
3. A surname​.

Compounds

Derived terms from 宜

• 不便宜
• 不入時宜／不入时宜
• 不合時宜／不合时宜 (bùhéshíyí)
• 不宜 (bùyí)
• 不達時宜／不达时宜
• 事不宜遲／事不宜迟 (shìbùyíchí)
• 事宜 (shìyí)
• 人地相宜
• 便宜 (piányi)
• 便宜主義／便宜主义
• 便宜從事／便宜从事
• 便宜施行
• 便宜處分／便宜处分
• 便宜處置／便宜处置
• 便宜行事 (biànyíxíngshì)
• 便宜話／便宜话
• 便宜貨／便宜货 (piányihuò)
• 冤家宜解不宜結／冤家宜解不宜结 (yuānjiā yí jiě bùyí jié)
• 北宜公路
• 占便宜
• 占盡便宜／占尽便宜
• 各得其宜
• 合宜 (héyí)
• 合時宜／合时宜 (héshíyí)
• 咸宜 (xiányí)
• 因事制宜
• 因地制宜 (yīndìzhìyí)
• 因時制宜／因时制宜
• 固宜

• 土宜
• 失宜 (shīyí)
• 宜人 (yírén)
• 宜侯夨簋
• 宜和 (Yíhé)
• 宜喜宜嗔
• 宜嗔宜喜
• 宜城 (Yíchéng)
• 宜室宜家
• 宜家 (yíjiā)
• 宜昌 (Yíchāng)
• 宜春 (Yíchūn)
• 宜春帖
• 宜母子 (yímǔzǐ)
• 宜然
• 宜男
• 宜興壺／宜兴壶
• 宜興瓷／宜兴瓷
• 宜蘭／宜兰 (Yílán)
• 宜賓／宜宾 (Yíbīn)
• 宜都 (Yídū)
• 宜顰宜笑／宜颦宜笑
• 宜黃腔／宜黄腔
• 小便宜 (xiǎopiányi)
• 屋宜
• 左宜右有
• 布宜諾／布宜诺
• 廉宜

• 得宜 (déyí)
• 揀便宜／拣便宜
• 撿便宜／捡便宜
• 擇福宜重／择福宜重
• 時宜／时宜 (shíyí)
• 機宜／机宜 (jīyí)
• 權宜／权宜 (quányí)
• 權宜之計／权宜之计 (quányízhījì)
• 氣盛言宜／气盛言宜
• 沾便宜
• 用舍失宜
• 相宜 (xiāngyí)
• 納宜／纳宜
• 老少咸宜 (lǎoshàoxiányí)
• 老幼咸宜
• 落便宜
• 討便宜／讨便宜
• 貪便宜／贪便宜 (tān piányi)
• 貪小便宜／贪小便宜
• 輕重失宜／轻重失宜
• 適宜／适宜 (shìyí)
• 防範得宜／防范得宜
• 隨宜／随宜
• 隨時制宜／随时制宜
• 靜宜園／静宜园
• 靜宜大學／静宜大学
• 面授機宜／面授机宜
• 食宜 (shíyí)

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Japanese

Kanji

宜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. best regards

Readings

• Go-on: ぎ (gi, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぎ (gi, Jōyō)
• Kun: よろしい (yoroshii, 宜しい); むべ (mube, 宜)

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Korean

Hanja

宜 • (ui) (hangeul 의, revised ui, McCune–Reischauer ŭi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宜: Hán Nôm readings: nghi, ngơi, nghe

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