益

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益 U+76CA, 益
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76CA
← 盉
[U+76C9]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 盋 →
[U+76CB]
益 U+FA17, 益
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA17
← 猪
[U+FA16]		 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 礼 →
[U+FA18]
益 U+FAA6, 益
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FAA6
← 瘟
[U+FAA5]		 CJK Compatibility Ideographs 盛 →
[U+FAA7]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

益 (radical 108 皿+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿金月廿 (TCBT), four-corner 80107, composition ⿳䒑八皿)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 793, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22972
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1208, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2560, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+76CA

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 益

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (益) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
隘 *qreːɡs
賹 *qreːɡs
搤 *qreːɡs, *qreːɡ
縊 *qleːɡs, *qleɡs
螠 *qleɡs
謚 *ɢliɡs, *qleɡ
諡 *ɢliɡs
蠲 *kʷliːŋ
溢 *liɡ
鎰 *liɡ
齸 *lig, *qleg
貖 *qreːɡ
益 *qleɡ
嗌 *qleɡ
膉 *qleɡ
鷁 *ŋɡleːɡ
艗 *ŋɡleːɡ

Pronunciation[edit]

Note:
  • iah - vernacular;
  • iak/ek - literary.
Rime
Character 益
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 伊昔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /ĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 益
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjiek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*q[i]k/ (dialect: *-ik > *-ek)
English increase

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 益
Reading # 1/1
No. 15081
Phonetic
component		 益
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 益
Old
Chinese		 /*qleɡ/

Definitions[edit]

益

  1. profit; benefit
  2. advantage
  3. 42nd hexagram of the I Ching

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 益

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

益

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. benefit
  2. gain
  3. profit
  4. advantage

Readings[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Kanji in this term
益
えき
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 益 (ʔjiek, “increase”). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

益 (hiragana えき, rōmaji eki)

  1. benefit
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
益
やく
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 益 (ʔjiek, “increase”). The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

益 (hiragana やく, rōmaji yaku)

  1. benefit

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
益
ますます
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Reduplication of 増す (masu).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

益 (hiragana ますます, rōmaji masumasu)

  1. even more

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

益 • (ik) (hangeul 익, revised ik, McCune-Reischauer ik, Yale ik)

  1. add
  2. gain, profit
  3. plenty

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

益 (ích, ịch)

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