醫

See also: 医

Translingual

Japanese	医
Simplified	医
Traditional	醫

Han character

醫 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸水一金田 (SEMCW), four-corner 7760₁, composition ⿱殹酉)

Derived characters

• 鿀, 𡄵, 𧕪, 𧮒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1287, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40006
• Dae Jaweon: page 1787, character 13
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3595, character 9
• Unihan data for U+91AB

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Chinese

trad.		醫
simp.		医*

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 醫
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／形声, OC *qɯ) : phonetic 殹 (OC *qiːs) + semantic 酉 (“liquor”).

Alternatively, as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 殹 (“to groan”) + 酉 (“liquor”) – using liquor to treat a groaning patient.

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese *ʔə and suggests it is cognate with Proto-Hlai *ja¹ (“medicine”), Proto-Kam-Sui *gja² (“medicine; to cure”), Proto-Tai *ʔɨaᴬ¹ (“medicine”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yî
• Eastern Min (BUC): ĭ

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): i

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ui¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹i

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yî
    • Hakka Romanization System: i´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yî
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)i´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)i²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: i
    • Tâi-lô: i
    • Phofsit Daibuun: y
    • IPA (Xiamen): /i⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /i³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /i⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /i⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ui¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ui
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ui³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹i
    • MiniDict: i^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹i
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /i⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'i

Rime
Character	醫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於其切
Baxter	'i
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɨ/
Li Rong	/ʔiə/
Wang Li	/ĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醫
Reading #	1/1
No.	15058
Phonetic component	医
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	醫
Old Chinese	/*qɯ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 醫

1. medicinal; medicine
2. doctor
3. to cure; to treat

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (醫):

• → Japanese: 医(い) (i)
• → Korean: 의(醫) (ui)
• → Vietnamese: y (醫)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Shinjitai	医
Kyūjitai	醫

Kanji

醫

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

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Readings

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: いやす (iyasu, 醫やす); くすし (kusushi, 醫)

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Korean

Hanja

醫 • (ui) (hangeul 의, McCune–Reischauer ŭi, Yale uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 醫 (y)

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Compounds

• y học 醫學