挹

挹	U+6339, 挹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6339

← 挸
[U+6338]

CJK Unified Ideographs

挺 →
[U+633A]

Translingual

Han character

挹 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口日山 (QRAU), four-corner 5601₇, composition ⿰扌邑)

to bale out
to decant liquids

Derived characters

𦶂

References

KangXi: page 432, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12105

Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1883, character 6

Unihan data for U+6339

Chinese

simp. and trad.		挹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唈	qɯːb, qrɯb
浥	qrɯːb, qab, *qrɯb
裛	qrab, qab, *qrɯb
俋	*r'ɯb
挹	*qɯb
邑	*qrɯb
悒	*qrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯb) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 邑 (OC *qrɯb).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
Min Nan (POJ): iap

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yì
  - Wade–Giles: i⁴
  - Yale: yì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: jap¹
  - Yale: yāp
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iap
  - Tâi-lô: iap
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iab
  - IPA (Xiamen): /iap̚³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /iap̚⁵/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iap̚³²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /iap̚³²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /iap̚³²/

Middle Chinese: /ʔiɪp̚/

Rime
Character	挹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	侵 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	伊入切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔip̚/
Li Rong	/ʔiəp̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jap¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qip/
(Zhengzhang): /*qɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	挹	挹	挹
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›
Old Chinese	/*qip/	/*qip/	/*qip/
English	to bow; suppress	to ladle out	suppress
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	挹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15020
Phonetic component	邑
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	揖
Old Chinese	/*qɯb/

Definitions

挹

(literary) to ladle out; to scoop up
- 我若能挹你以為眼，我將贈給那善歌的盲妹，她必明眸善睞了。 [MSC, trad.]
  我若能挹你以为眼，我将赠给那善歌的盲妹，她必明眸善睐了。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 1924, 朱自清 (Zhu Ziqing), 綠
  Wǒ ruò néng yì nǐ yǐ wéi yǎn, wǒ jiāng zèng gěi nà shàn gē de mángmèi, tā bì míngmóushànlài le. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this example)

Japanese

Kanji

挹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

to bale out
to decant liquids

Readings

On (unclassified): ゆう (yū), おう (ō)

Kun: くむ (kumu)

Korean

Hanja

挹 • (eup) (hangeul 읍, revised eup, McCune–Reischauer ŭp, Yale up)

to bale out
to decant liquids

Vietnamese

Han character

挹: Hán Nôm readings: úp

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