屰

See also: 屯

屰 U+5C70, 屰 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C70 ← 屯 [U+5C6F] CJK Unified Ideographs 山 → [U+5C71]

Translingual

Han character

屰 (Kangxi radical 45, 屮+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 廿山 (TU), composition ⿱䒑屮)

1. disobedient

Derived characters

• 逆, 朔, 欮, 㖾, 㡿

Additional Derived Characters

• 𠱘, 𣍮, 𪜏, 𥑺, 𥿬, 𧊜, 𰴲, 𪟄, 𭆯, 𬎫, 𫅦, 𫯷, 𩒕, 𡴘, 𩬸, 𠩋, 𡱞, 𦥭, 𦥾, 𪀝, 𤎬, 𦒂, 𩕻

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 305, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7833
• Dae Jaweon: page 603, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1021, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5C70

Chinese

simp. and trad.		屰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 屰
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
斥	*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡs, *ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ
訴	*sŋaːɡs
泝	*sŋaːɡs
愬	*sŋaːɡs, *sŋreːɡ
遡	*sŋaːɡs
塑	*sŋaːɡs
溯	*sŋaːɡs
遻	*ŋaːɡs
柝	*tŋ̊ʰaːɡ
鶚	*ŋaːɡ
諤	*ŋaːɡ
齶	*ŋaːɡ
鍔	*ŋaːɡ
遌	*ŋaːɡ
崿	*ŋaːɡ
偔	*ŋaːɡ
堮	*ŋaːɡ
湂	*ŋaːɡ
鱷	*ŋaːɡ
噩	*ŋaːɡ
咢	*ŋaːɡ
鑩	*ŋaːɡ
鄂	*ŋaːɡ
鰐	*ŋaːɡ
萼	*ŋaːɡ
愕	*ŋaːɡ
顎	*ŋaːɡ
朔	*sŋraːɡ
槊	*sraːwɢ
蒴	*sraːwɢ
坼	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
拆	*tŋ̊ʰraːɡ
逆	*ŋraɡ
屰	*ŋraɡ
縌	*ŋraɡ
蝷	*reːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – an upside down human figure (大 inverted) – opposite, backwards, opposing. In the small script version, a horizontal stroke was added perhaps to emphasize the fact that the man is upside down. Original form of 逆.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nì (ni⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶

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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: jik⁶
    • Yale: yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjaek

Rime
Character	屰
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	陌 (115)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	宜戟切
Baxter	ngjaek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋˠiæk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋᵚiak̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiak̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋiajk̚/
Li Rong	/ŋiɐk̚/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɐk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋiɐk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋraɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	屰
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjæk ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋrak/
English	go against
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	屰
Reading #	1/1
No.	9475
Phonetic component	屰
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	逆
Old Chinese	/*ŋraɡ/

Definitions

屰

1. Original form of 逆 (nì, “to go against”).

References

• “屰”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Cantonese) Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 2), p. 98

Japanese

Kanji

屰

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. disobedient

Readings

• On (unclassified): げき (geki)、ぎゃく (gyaku)、はく (haku)、ひやく (hiyaku)
• Kun: さからう (sakarau)

Korean

Hanja

屰 • (yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune–Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

1. counteract