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See also:
U+9BC9, 鯉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BC9

[U+9BC8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9BCA]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

Stroke order
18 strokes
Stroke order (Japan)
18 strokes

(Kangxi radical 195, +7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田土 (NFWG), four-corner 26314, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1471, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2003, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4691, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9BC9

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rɯʔ) : semantic (fish) + phonetic (OC *rɯʔ).

Etymology[edit]

Schuessler (2007) considers connection to Proto-Tai *plaːᴬ (fish) to be unlikely.

Norman (2014) compares it to Proto-Kam-Tai *mbləi (carp), suggesting that it may be an early loan from Chinese; compare Thai ปลาไน (nai, common carp), Lakkia [script needed] (-plai⁴, carp).

See the entry 雙鯉魚 for the figurative senses.

Pronunciation[edit]


Note:
  • dì - vernacular;
  • lǐ - literary.
Note:
  • lí - literary;
  • lē/lě, tāi/tai/tâi/tǎi - vernacular (often written as or 𩸙).

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter liX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɨX/
Li
Rong
/liəX/
Wang
Li
/lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lei5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-rəʔ/
English carp (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7828
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rɯʔ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. carp, especially the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
  2. (literary, figuratively) letter; correspondence
  3. (literary, figuratively) messenger

Synonyms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
こい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/ko1pi1//kopi//kofi/ → */kowi//koi/

From Old Japanese, attested in the Nihon Shoki.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

(こい) or (コイ) (koiこひ (kofi) or コヒ (kofi)?

  1. carp, specifically, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Usage notes[edit]

  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as コイ.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

See also[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

(こい) (Koiこひ (kofi)?

  1. a surname

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(ri>i) (hangeul >, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings:

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