疫

疫 U+75AB, 疫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75AB ← 疪 [U+75AA] CJK Unified Ideographs 疬 → [U+75AC]

Translingual

Han character

疫 (radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹弓水 (KHNE), four-corner 0014₇, composition ⿸疒殳)

References

• KangXi: page 770, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22069
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2663, character 8
• Unihan data for U+75AB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		疫
variant forms		𤶣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (役) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
椺	*ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ
役	*ɢʷeɡ
疫	*ɢʷeɡ
垼	*ɢʷeɡ
炈	*ɢʷeɡ
鈠	*ɢʷeɡ
豛	*ɢʷeɡ
坄	*doː, *leɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷeɡ): semantic 疒 (“sickness”) + abbreviated phonetic 役 (OC *ɢʷeɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶
• Min Bei (KCR): ĭ
• Min Nan (POJ): ia̍h / e̍k / ia̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik⁶
    • Yale: yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ĭ
    • IPA ^(key): /i²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iah
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
    • Tâi-lô: i̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ek
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚²⁴/

Note:

• ia̍h - vernacular;
• e̍k/ia̍k - literary.

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 疫
Mandarin	Beijing	/i⁵¹/
	Harbin	/i⁵³/
	Tianjin	/i⁵³/
	Jinan	/i²¹/
	Qingdao	/i⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/i⁴²/
	Xi'an	/i²⁴/
	Xining	/ji²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/i¹³/
	Lanzhou	/i⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/i²¹³/
	Wuhan	/y²¹³/
	Chengdu	/yo³¹/
	Guiyang	/iu²¹/
	Kunming	/i³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʐuʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/yəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/yʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/i⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦioʔ¹/ /ɦyɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦyəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦioʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/jy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/yʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/y⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/y²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/y²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/it̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jek̚²/
	Nanning	/jek̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/jik̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ik̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/iʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/i²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/mok̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/muak̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jwiᴇk̚/▼

Rime
Character	疫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	昔 (124)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	營隻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jwiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iuæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭwɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷeɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ywek ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷek/
English	epidemic
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	疫
Reading #	1/1
No.	15007
Phonetic component	役
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	役
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷeɡ/

Definitions

疫

1. epidemic; plague; pestilence

Compounds

• 人工免疫
• 免疫 (miǎnyì)
• 免疫作用
• 免疫力 (miǎnyìlì)
• 免疫系統／免疫系统 (miǎnyì xìtǒng)
• 免疫血清 (miǎnyì xuèqīng)
• 動物檢疫／动物检疫
• 口服疫苗
• 口蹄疫 (kǒutíyì)
• 基礎免疫／基础免疫
• 天然免疫
• 時疫／时疫 (shíyì)

• 晚疫病
• 檢疫／检疫 (jiǎnyì)
• 沙克疫苗
• 沙賓疫苗／沙宾疫苗
• 活性疫苗
• 海港檢疫／海港检疫
• 混合疫苗
• 畜疫
• 疫區／疫区
• 疫氣／疫气 (yìqì)
• 疫病 (yìbìng)
• 疫癘／疫疠 (yìlì)

• 疫苗 (yìmiáo)
• 疫鬼
• 瘟疫 (wēnyì)
• 瘴疫
• 白喉疫苗
• 自然免疫
• 虎疫
• 被動免疫／被动免疫
• 防疫 (fángyì)
• 霍亂疫區／霍乱疫区
• 驗疫／验疫
• 鼠疫 (shǔyì)

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Japanese

Kanji

疫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. epidemic

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Kan-on: えき (eki, Jōyō)
• Kun: え (e, 疫); えやみ (eyami)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

疫 (dịch)

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