藝

See also: 艺, 芸, and 兿

Translingual

Traditional	藝
Shinjitai	芸
Simplified	艺

Han character

藝 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+15, 19 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 18 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿土戈戈 (TGII), four-corner 4473₁, composition ⿱蓺云)

Derived characters

• 𠑢, 囈, 𡤦, 𢺐, 𣡊, 襼, 讛

Related characters

• 芸 (Japanese shinjitai)
• 艺 (Simplified Chinese)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1065, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32330
• Dae Jaweon: page 1530, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3317, character 12
• Unihan data for U+85DD

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Chinese

trad.		藝
simp.		艺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
褹	*ŋr'eːds, *ŋeds
勢	*hŋjeds
藝	*ŋeds
囈	*ŋeds
埶	*ŋeds
蓺	*ŋeds
槸	*ŋeds
爇	*ŋʷjed
褻	*sŋed
暬	*sŋed
熱	*ŋjed
槷	*ŋeːd

蓺 + 云.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): gē / gōe

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ghoi⁷

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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: ngai⁶
    • Yale: ngaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngi
    • Hakka Romanization System: ngi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ngi⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /ŋi⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gē
    • Tâi-lô: gē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ge
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡe⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ɡe²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ɡe³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: gōe
    • Tâi-lô: guē
    • Phofsit Daibuun: goe
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ɡue⁴¹/

Note: gōe - vernacular.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ghoi⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: gōi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɡoi¹¹/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 藝
Mandarin	Beijing	/i⁵¹/
	Harbin	/i⁵³/
	Tianjin	/i⁵³/
	Jinan	/i²¹/
	Qingdao	/i⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/i³¹²/
	Xi'an	/i⁴⁴/
	Xining	/ji²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/i¹³/
	Lanzhou	/i¹³/
	Ürümqi	/i²¹³/
	Wuhan	/i³⁵/
	Chengdu	/ȵi¹³/
	Guiyang	/ni²¹³/ 老 /i²¹³/ 新
	Kunming	/i²¹²/
	Nanjing	/i⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/zz̩⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/i⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/i⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ȵi²³/
	Suzhou	/ȵi³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ȵi¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ȵi²²/
Hui	Shexian	/ni²²/
	Tunxi	/ȵi¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/ȵi⁵⁵/ /ȵi¹¹/
	Xiangtan	/ȵi⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/ȵi²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/ŋi⁵³/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/ŋɐi²²/
	Nanning	/ŋɐi²²/
	Hong Kong	/ŋɐi²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/ge²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/ŋiɛ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/ŋi⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/goi³¹/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/ŋi³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjiejH

Rime
Character	藝
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	祭 (35)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	魚祭切
Baxter	ngjiejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋiᴇiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋiɛiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋjæiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋiajH/
Li Rong	/ŋiɛiH/
Wang Li	/ŋĭɛiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯ɛiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋet-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	藝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjiejH ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋet-s/ (MC I!)
English	cultivation, art, skill
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	藝
Reading #	1/1
No.	15090
Phonetic component	埶
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	藝
Old Chinese	/*ŋeds/
Notes	蓺六藝分化字

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 藝

1. art

   藝術／艺术  ―  yìshù  ―  art

2. skill; talent

   技藝／技艺  ―  jìyì  ―  skill

3. craft

   手藝／手艺  ―  shǒuyì  ―  craftmanship, workmanship

4. ^† limit; bound; norm
   • Warring States Period, Discourses of the States (國語), Discourses of Jin, Book VIII (晉語八).

     及桓子，驕泰奢侈，貪欲無藝 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     及桓子，骄泰奢侈，贪欲无艺 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     jí Huánzǐ, jiāo tài shēchǐ, tān yù wú yì [Pinyin]

     By the time of Lord Huan of Luan, [he was] excessively arrogant and extravagant; [his] greed and desires [knew] no limits.

5. ^† to plant; to grow

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	芸
Kyūjitai	藝

Kanji

藝

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 芸)

1. technique, art, craft, performance

Readings

• Go-on: げ, (ge)
• Kan-on: げい (gei)
• Kun: (all rare) うえる (ueru), のり (nori), わざ (waza)

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Korean

Hanja

藝 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

Readings

藝: Hán Việt readings: nghệ, vân
藝: Nôm readings: nghế, vân, nghề, nghệ

Noun

藝 • (nghệ, nghề)

1. art

   善(thiện)藝(nghệ)

   artist

2. craft, trade

   藝(nghề)業(nghiệp)

   trade

   文(văn)藝(nghề)

   literature

3. talent, ability

   武(vũ)藝(nghề)

   martial arts

References

• Jean-Louis Taberd (1838), Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, p. A338.
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)