彝

See also: 彛 and 彞

Translingual

Han character

彝 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 2744₉, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)

1. Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
2. tripod, wine vessel
3. rule

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9950
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 962, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5F5D

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		彝
alternative forms		彞／彝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彝
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *li) : phonetic 彑 (OC *krads, “head”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + semantic 糸 (“silk”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”)- a sacrificial bird with its wings tied is held with two hands, the head of which is represented by '彑', the body of which is now represented by '米' (no connection to the meaning of '米'), the string which ties the wing represented by '糸' and the hands represented by '廾'. Or instead of a bird, a slave. The '彑' component was mentioned as a phonetic in Shuowen.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): î

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
    • Tâi-lô: î
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /i²⁴/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l][ə]j/

  (Zhengzhang): /*li/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ yij ›
Old Chinese	/*[l][ə]j/
English	ritual vase
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	彝
Reading #	1/1
No.	14908
Phonetic component	彝
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	姨
Old Chinese	/*li/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 彝

1. ritual vessel in ancestral halls
2. wine vessel
3. rule; convention
4. (～族) Yi, an ethnic group living primarily in the mountainous areas of southwest China

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Japanese

Kanji

彝

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 彝)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
彝
い Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 彝.

Noun

彝(い) • (i) 

1. in ancient China, a tripod kettle or other vessel used to make offerings to one's ancestors
2. (by extension) cardinal principle

Proper noun

彝(い) • (I) 

1. Yi (ethnic group)

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Korean

Hanja

彝 (eum 이 (i))

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Vietnamese

Han character

彝: Hán Nôm readings: di

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References

• Nom Foundation