繹

See also: 绎

Translingual

Traditional	繹
Shinjitai (extended)	䋇
Simplified	绎

Han character

繹 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女火田中十 (VFWLJ), four-corner 2694₁, composition ⿰糹睪)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 941, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27975
• Dae Jaweon: page 1380, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3459, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7E79

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Chinese

trad.		繹
simp.		绎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斁	*ʔl'aːɡs, *l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
籜	*l̥ʰaːɡ
蘀	*l̥ʰaːɡ
鐸	*l'aːɡ
凙	*l'aːɡ
襗	*l'aːɡ, *rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
擇	*rlaːɡ
澤	*rlaːɡ
鸅	*rlaːɡ
蠌	*rlaːɡ
檡	*rlaːɡ, *hljaɡ
釋	*hljaɡ
繹	*laːɡ
睪	*neb, *laːɡ, *kuː
譯	*laːɡ
嶧	*laːɡ
懌	*laːɡ
驛	*laːɡ
醳	*laːɡ
圛	*laːɡ
墿	*laːɡ
燡	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laːɡ) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• 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: yek

Rime
Character	繹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊益切
Baxter	yek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*laːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	繹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15136
Phonetic component	睪
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繹
Old Chinese	/*laːɡ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 繹

1. to unravel
2. to interpret; to explain
3. continuous

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Japanese

Kanji

繹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 䋇)

1. pull out

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku)
• Kan-on: えき (eki)
• Kun: ぬく (nuku, 繹く); たずねる (tazuneru, 繹る)

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Korean

Hanja

繹 (eum 역 (yeok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

繹: Hán Nôm readings: gịt, dịch, dịt

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