邑

See also: 阝, 阜, and 巴

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 阝 (when used as a right radical component)

Han character

邑 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口日山 (RAU) or 難口日山 (XRAU), four-corner 6071₇, composition ⿱口巴)

1. Kangxi radical #163, ⾢.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №229

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/邑

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39269
• Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9091

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		邑
alternative forms		阝 radical

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邑
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
唈	*qɯːb, *qrɯb
浥	*qrɯːb, *qab, *qrɯb
裛	*qrab, *qab, *qrɯb
俋	*r'ɯb
挹	*qɯb
邑	*qrɯb
悒	*qrɯb

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 囗 + 卪.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yip
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ip

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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: jap¹
    • Yale: yāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yip
    • Hakka Romanization System: ib`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yib<sup>5</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /ip̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yip
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ib`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yib⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)ip̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ip
    • Tâi-lô: ip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ib
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ip̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ip

Rime
Character	邑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於汲切
Baxter	'ip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjip̚/
Li Rong	/ʔjəp̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jap1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*q(r)[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔip ›
Old Chinese	/*q(r)[ə]p/
English	city, town
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	邑
Reading #	1/1
No.	15021
Phonetic component	邑
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邑
Old Chinese	/*qrɯb/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 邑

1. state; country; nation
2. capital; capital city
3. city; town
4. area; district
5. Original form of 悒 (yì, “to worry; anxious”).

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Japanese

Kanji

邑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←おふ (ofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あふ (afu, historical)}; ゆう (yū)^{←いふ (ifu, historical)}
• Kun: くに (kuni, 邑); むら (mura, 邑); うれえる (ureeru, 邑える); さと (sato, 邑)
• Nanori: すみ (sumi)

Etymology 1

Noun

邑(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←いふ (ifu)?}

1. Eup, an administrative division in Korea like a town

Etymology 2

Noun

邑(おおざと) • (ōzato) ^{←おほざと (ofozato)?}

1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

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Korean

Hanja

邑 • (eup) (hangeul 읍, revised eup, McCune–Reischauer ŭp, Yale up)

1. (geography) Town or eup, an administrative division larger and more populous than a ri (village) but smaller and less populous than a county (gun) or city (si).

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 邑 (ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp)

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