淮

淮 U+6DEE, 淮 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6DEE ← 淭 [U+6DED] CJK Unified Ideographs 淯 → [U+6DEF]

Translingual

Han character

淮 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 水人土 (EOG) or 難水人土 (XEOG), four-corner 3011₄, composition ⿰氵隹)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 631, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17682
• Dae Jaweon: page 1034, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1652, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6DEE

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		淮

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
匯	*ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓	*kʰʷriːl
淮	*ɡʷriːl
睢	*qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉	*sqʷi
趡	*skʰʷilʔ
踓	*skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖	*sqʰʷi
濉	*sqʰʷi
倠	*qʰʷi
婎	*qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維	*ɢʷi
惟	*ɢʷi
唯	*ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰	*ɢʷi
琟	*ɢʷil
鷕	*ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷	*ɢʷril
鵻	*sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡʷriːl) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 隹 (OC *tjul)

Etymology

Yang (1999) suggests a derivation from the bird (隹) totem worship of the Huaiyi that inhabited the Huai river basin.

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 淮

1. (～河) Huai River
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

淮

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: え (e)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: わい (wai)
• Kun: ひとしくする (hitoshikusuru)、かこむ (kakomu)

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Korean

Hanja

淮 (eum 회 (hoe))

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Vietnamese

Han character

淮: Hán Nôm readings: hoài, choài

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References

• Nom Foundation