邇

See also: 迩

邇 U+9087, 邇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9087 ← 邆 [U+9086] CJK Unified Ideographs 邈 → [U+9088]

Translingual

Han character

邇 (radical 162, 辵+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜一火月 (YMFB), four-corner 3130₂, composition ⿺辶爾)

References

• KangXi: page 1267, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39193
• Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3891, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9087

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Chinese

trad.		邇
simp.		迩

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (爾) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
嬭	*rneːlʔ, *niːlʔ
禰	*niːlʔ
镾	*niːlʔ, *mnel
薾	*niːlʔ
檷	*niːlʔ
鑈	*niːlʔ, *neːb
瀰	*niːlʔ, *mnel, *mnelʔ
獼	*mnel
瓕	*mnel
彌	*mnel
鸍	*mnel, *hnjel
擟	*mnel
濔	*mnelʔ
壐	*smlelʔ
璽	*smlelʔ
爾	*njelʔ
邇	*njelʔ
獮	*smlenʔ
籋	*neb, *neːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ěr (er³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄦˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): jíⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: ěr
    • Zhuyin: ㄦˇ
    • Wade–Giles: êrh³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: eel
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀɤɻ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁵
    • Yale: yíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jíⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: jínn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jvie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /d͡ʑĩ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /d͡ʑĩ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑĩ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /d͡ʑĩ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑĩ⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /ȵiᴇ^X/▼

Rime
Character	邇
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	兒氏切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵiə̆X/
Li Rong	/ȵieX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ěr

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n[ə][r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njelʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邇
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ěr
Middle Chinese	‹ nyeX ›
Old Chinese	/*n[ə][r]ʔ/
English	near
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	邇
Reading #	1/1
No.	2818
Phonetic component	爾
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	爾
Old Chinese	/*njelʔ/

Definitions

邇

1. (archaic) near

Compounds

• 不可向邇／不可向迩
• 名傳遐邇／名传遐迩
• 名聞遐邇／名闻遐迩
• 室邇人遐／室迩人遐
• 室邇人遠／室迩人远

• 密邇／密迩
• 柔遠能邇／柔远能迩
• 聞名遐邇／闻名遐迩
• 行遠自邇／行远自迩
• 遐邇／遐迩 (xiá'ěr)

• 遐邇一體／遐迩一体
• 遐邇聞名／遐迩闻名
• 遐邇著聞／遐迩著闻
• 邇來／迩来 (ěrlái)
• 邇言／迩言

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Japanese

Kanji

邇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: に (ni)
• Kan-on: じ (ji)^{←ぢ (di, historical)}
• Kun: ちかい (chikai, 邇い); ちかし (chikashi, 邇し); ちか (chika, 邇)

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Korean

Hanja

邇 • (i) (hangeul 이, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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