宜

See also: 冝

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: volume 2, page 920, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5B9C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): gî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: i²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gî
    • Tâi-lô: gî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: gii
    • IPA (Taipei): /gi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /gi¹³/

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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

Adjective

宜

1. appropriate, suitable, proper

Adverb

宜

1. should

Proper noun

宜

1. A surname​.

References

• “宜”, in MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT )^[1] (in Mandarin/English), accessed 2014-03-11

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Japanese

Kanji

宜

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: ぎ (gi)
• Kan’on: ぎ (gi)
• Kun: よろしい (yoroshii), むべ (mube)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

宜 (nghi, ngơi, nghe)

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