翳

翳 U+7FF3, 翳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FF3 ← 翲 [U+7FF2] CJK Unified Ideographs 翴 → [U+7FF4]

Translingual

Han character

翳 (radical 124 羽+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸水尸一一 (SESMM), four-corner 7712₇, composition ⿱殹羽)

1. shade, screen
2. to hide, screen

References

• KangXi: page 959, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28796
• Dae Jaweon: page 1405, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3355, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7FF3

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		翳

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (医) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
鷖	qiː
翳	qiː, *qiːs
嫛	qiː
黳	qiː
繄	qiː, *qiːs
医	qiːs
嫕	qiːs
蘙	qiːs
瞖	qiːs
殹	qiːs
贀	ɢʷis
醫	qɯ
毉	qɯ
蠮	qiːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qiː, *qiːs): phonetic 殹 (OC *qiːs) + semantic 羽.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ai³

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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: ai³
    • Yale: ai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ei³
    • IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔei/, /ʔei^H/▼

Rime
Character	翳	翳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切	於計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/	/ʔɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/	/ʔɛjH/
Li Rong	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Wang Li	/iei/	/ieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiei/	/ʔieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī	yì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/, /*qiːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	翳	翳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15046	15051
Phonetic component	医	医
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖	翳
Old Chinese	/*qiː/	/*qiːs/

Definitions

翳

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Japanese

Kanji

翳

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): えい (ei)
• Kun: きぬがさ (kinugasa), かざす (kazasu), かげる (kageru)

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Korean

Hanja

翳 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune-Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: ế

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References

• Nom Foundation