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U+9ECE, 黎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ECE

[U+9ECD]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9ECF]
U+F989, 黎
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F989

[U+F988]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs
[U+F98A]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 202, +3, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹人水 (HHOE), four-corner 27132, composition 𥝢𠆢)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1517, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47994
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2049, character 36
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4759, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9ECE

Chinese

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trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin

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Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *riːl) : semantic (millet) + phonetic (OC *rids).

Etymology

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“black; numerous”
Cognate with (“black”) (Wang, 1982).
“Li people”
From Hlai Hlai. Alleged to be used in Eastern Han dynasty book Yiwu Zhi:
南裔異物廣州𥠖 [MSC, trad.]
南裔异物广州𥠖 [MSC, simp.]
From: 顧炎武《天下郡國利病書》, early Qing dynasty
“Nányì Yìwù Zhì” wèi: Lǐ zài Guǎngzhōu zhī nán, sú hū Lǐ wèi . [Pinyin]
The Records of Foreign Matters says that the Li people live in the south of Guangzhou, and it is commonly known as "𥠖" (Li)
Before Song dynasty, () was a more common term.

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Pronunciation

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Note: lài/lai/lai2 - surname.
Note: loi5 - surname.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter lej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lei/
Pan
Wuyun
/lei/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛj/
Li
Rong
/lei/
Wang
Li
/liei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lej › ‹ lej ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˁij/ (Cf. 耆 0552l ɡij < *[ɡ]rij ‘old’) /*[r]ˁij/
English old black

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. 7880
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*riːl/

Definitions

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  1. (obsolete) black
    alt. forms: ()
  2. (literary) numerous
      ―  mín  ―  common people
  3. until; at the time of
      ―  míng  ―  dawn
  4. () (historical) state of Li (a state in modern-day Shanxi, China, during the Shang dynasty)
  5. Used in transcription.
    希留  ―  xīliú  ―  Richelieu
    猜想  ―  màn cāixiǎng  ―  Riemann hypothesis
    1. (~族) Li people (the largest ethnic minority in Hainan, China)
    2. Short for 黎巴嫩 (Líbānèn, “Lebanon”).
  6. a surname
      ―  Yuánhóng  ―  Li Yuanhong (Chinese politician during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic of China)

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. black, bluish black
  2. gloomy, dusky
  3. used to indicate the Li people of Hainan Province, China

Readings

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  • Go-on: らい (rai)
  • Kan-on: れい (rei)
  • On: (ri)
  • Kun: くろ (kuro, )くろい (kuroi, 黎い)
  • Nanori: たみ (tami)

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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(eum (ryeo), word-initial (South Korea) (yeo))

  1. hanja form? of 여(黎) (black)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: ,

  1. chữ Hán form of (a surname).
    黎利Lê Lợi