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宜

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See also: 宣 and 冝
宜 U+5B9C, 宜
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B9C
← 宛
[U+5B9B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 宝 →
[U+5B9D]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 宜
alternative forms
宐
㝖
𡨆
𠣨
𡪀
宐
㝖
𡨆
𠣨
𡪀
冝
 

Glyph origin

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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
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
Transcribed ancient scripts
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) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 且 (“sacrifical altar”) + 多 (“two pieces of meat”) – two pieces of sacrificial meat placed in a sacrifical altar.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • ngì - literary;
  • ngiè - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 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 (Hokkien) /gi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ŋie⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /ŋi²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /ŋĩ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ŋi³¹/
/zi³¹/
Rime
Character 宜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚羈切
Baxter ngje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋjiə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ŋje/
Wang
Li 		/ŋǐe/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ŋie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ji4
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

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宜

  1. appropriate; suitable; proper
  2. should; ought to
    宜早不宜遲／宜早不宜迟  ―  yí zǎo bùyí chí  ―  the sooner, the better
  3. (literary) probably; seemingly
  4. a surname

Compounds

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References

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  • “宜”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “宜”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 160.

Japanese

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Kanji

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宜

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. good; best regards (よい, よろしい)[1]
  2. naturally (むべ)
  3. should, ought (よろしく…べし)

Readings

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Pronunciation

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Kanji in this term
宜
むべ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Kanji in this term
宜
むべ > うべ
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
諾

Adverb

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宜(むべ) or 宜(うべ) • (mube or ube) 

  1. surely, indeed, truly, naturally, certainly

References

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  1. ^ “宜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Middle Korean readings, if any”)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

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

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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宜: Hán Nôm readings: nghi, ngơi, nghe

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