禷

禷 U+79B7, 禷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79B7 ← 禶 [U+79B6] CJK Unified Ideographs 禸 → [U+79B8]

Translingual

Han character

禷 (Kangxi radical 113, 示+19, 24 strokes, cangjie input 戈火火大金 (IFFKC), four-corner 3128₆, composition ⿰礻類)

1. a special sacrifice

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 847, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24875
• Dae Jaweon: page 1269, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2412, character 12
• Unihan data for U+79B7

Chinese

trad.		禷
simp. #		禷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蘱	*ruːls, *ruds
纇	*ruːls
類	*ruːls, *ruds
頪	*roːds
禷	*ruds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruds) : semantic 示 + phonetic 類 (OC *ruːls, *ruds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lèi (lei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lèi
    • Wade–Giles: lei⁴
    • Yale: lèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ley
    • Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: leoi⁶
    • Yale: leuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: lwijH

Rime
Character	禷
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	力遂切
Baxter	lwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwiH/
Li Rong	/luiH/
Wang Li	/lwiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lwiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ruds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	禷
Reading #	1/1
No.	7774
Phonetic component	頪
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	類
Old Chinese	/*ruds/
Notes	經典通作類

Definitions

禷

1. (archaic) Sacrifice to Heaven due to special accidents.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03081