宧

宧

宧 U+5BA7, 宧 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5BA7 ← 宦 [U+5BA6] CJK Unified Ideographs 宨 → [U+5BA8]

Translingual

Han character

宧 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十尸中中 (JSLL) or X十尸中中 (XJSLL), four-corner 3071₇, composition ⿱宀𦣞)

Further reading

• KangXi: page 285, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7139
• Dae Jaweon: page 564, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 930, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5BA7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宧

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
茝	*kʰljɯːʔ, *kljɯʔ
洍	*ljɯʔ, *lɯ
姬	*klɯ, *lɯ
宧	*lɯ
頤	*lɯ
弬	*lɯ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *lɯ) : semantic 宀 + phonetic 𦣞 ().

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨ/

Rime
Character	宧
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	與之切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/jɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨ/
Li Rong	/iə/
Wang Li	/jĭə/
Bernard Karlgren	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	宧
Reading #	1/1
No.	14883
Phonetic component	頤
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	飴
Old Chinese	/*lɯ/

Definitions

宧

1. northeast corner of a room

References

• “宧”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–