緎

緎 U+7DCE, 緎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCE ← 緍 [U+7DCD] CJK Unified Ideographs 総 → [U+7DCF]

Translingual

Han character

緎 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈口一 (VFIRM), four-corner 2395₀, composition ⿰糹或)

1. seam

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27608
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3410, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7DCE

Chinese

trad.		緎
simp.		𰬟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
幗	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂	*kʷɯːɡs
蔮	*kʷɯːɡs
國	*kʷɯːɡ
或	*ɡʷɯːɡ
惑	*ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮	*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾	*qʰʷrɯɡ
緎	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域	*ɢʷrɯɡ
罭	*ɢʷrɯɡ
棫	*ɡʷrɯɡ
琙	*ɡʷrɯɡ
魊	*ɡʷrɯɡ
馘	*kʷrɯːɡ
聝	*kʷrɯːɡ
膕	*kʷrɯːɡ
摑	*kʷrɯːɡ
漍	*kʷrɯːɡ
嘓	*kʷrɯːɡ
蟈	*kʷrɯːɡ
掝	*qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧	*qʷrɯɡ
稶	*qʷɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wik⁶
    • Yale: wihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: hwik, xwik

Rime
Character	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	蒸 (135)	蒸 (135)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	雨逼切	況逼切
Baxter	hwik	xwik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɨk̚/	/hwɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨk̚/	/hʷɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuek̚/	/xiuek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwik̚/	/hwik̚/
Li Rong	/ɣiuək̚/	/xiuək̚/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwək̚/	/xĭwək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wək̚/	/xi̯wək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wik6	hik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷrək/, /*qʷʰrək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷrɯɡ/, /*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ hwik ›	‹ xwik ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷrək/	/*qʷʰrək/
English	bundle of threads	bundle of threads
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	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5552	5559
Phonetic component	或	或
Rime group	職	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	洫	域
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷrɯɡ/	/*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Definitions

緎

1. seam
2. (obsolete) Classifier for bundles of silk threads.

Japanese

Kanji

緎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. seam

Readings

• On (unclassified): よく (yoku); いき (iki); きょく (kyoku); こく (koku); いく (iku)
• Kun: ぬいかぎり (nuikagiri)