繹

See also: 绎

繹 U+7E79, 繹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E79 ← 繸 [U+7E78] CJK Unified Ideographs 繺 → [U+7E7A]

Translingual

Traditional	繹
Shinjitai (extended)	䋇
Simplified	绎

Han character

繹 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+13, 19 strokes, cangjie input 女火田中十 (VFWLJ), four-corner 2694₁, composition ⿰糹睪)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 941, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27975
• Dae Jaweon: page 1380, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3459, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7E79

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Chinese

trad.		繹
simp.		绎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
斁	*ʔl'aːɡs, *l'aːɡs, *laːɡ
籜	*l̥ʰaːɡ
蘀	*l̥ʰaːɡ
鐸	*l'aːɡ
凙	*l'aːɡ
襗	*l'aːɡ, *rlaːɡ, *laːɡ
擇	*rlaːɡ
澤	*rlaːɡ
鸅	*rlaːɡ
蠌	*rlaːɡ
檡	*rlaːɡ, *hljaɡ
釋	*hljaɡ
繹	*laːɡ
睪	*neb, *laːɡ, *kuː
譯	*laːɡ
嶧	*laːɡ
懌	*laːɡ
驛	*laːɡ
醳	*laːɡ
圛	*laːɡ
墿	*laːɡ
燡	*laːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laːɡ) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 睪 (OC *neb, *laːɡ, *kuː).

Etymology

Same word as 驛 (OC *laːɡ, “posthorse; relay station”), 譯 (OC *laːɡ, “to translate”), 懌 (OC *laːɡ, “relaxed; pleased”), 斁 (OC *laːɡ, “to be tired of”) (Schuessler, 2007). Also related to 釋 (OC *hljaɡ, “to set free; to explain”), 赦 (OC *hljaɡs, “to let go; to pardon”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 繹

1. to unravel; to draw out
2. to interpret; to explain
3. to continue

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Japanese

Kanji

繹

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 䋇)

1. pull out

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku)
• Kan-on: えき (eki)
• Kun: ぬく (nuku, 繹く)、たずねる (tazuneru, 繹る)

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Korean

Hanja

繹 (eum 역 (yeok))

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Vietnamese

Han character

繹: Hán Nôm readings: gịt, dịch, dịt

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