棫

棫

棫 U+68EB, 棫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-68EB ← 棪 [U+68EA] CJK Unified Ideographs 棬 → [U+68EC]

Translingual

Han character

棫 (radical 75, 木+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 木戈口一 (DIRM), four-corner 4395₀, composition ⿰木或)

References

• KangXi: page 534, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14968
• Dae Jaweon: page 922, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1227, character 6
• Unihan data for U+68EB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		棫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (或) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
幗	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂	*kʷɯːɡs
蔮	*kʷɯːɡs
國	*kʷɯːɡ
或	*ɡʷɯːɡ
惑	*ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮	*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾	*qʰʷrɯɡ
緎	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域	*ɢʷrɯɡ
罭	*ɢʷrɯɡ
棫	*ɡʷrɯɡ
琙	*ɡʷrɯɡ
魊	*ɡʷrɯɡ
馘	*kʷrɯːɡ
聝	*kʷrɯːɡ
膕	*kʷrɯːɡ
摑	*kʷrɯːɡ
漍	*kʷrɯːɡ
嘓	*kʷrɯːɡ
蟈	*kʷrɯːɡ
掝	*qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧	*qʷrɯɡ
稶	*qʷɯɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiw
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wik⁶
    • Yale: wihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wig⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /wɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ɦwɨk̚/▼

Rime
Character	棫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	職 (135)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	雨逼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwik̚/
Li Rong	/ɣiuək̚/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	棫
Reading #	1/1
No.	5557
Phonetic component	或
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	域
Old Chinese	/*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Definitions

棫

1. thorny shrub with yellow flowers
2. a kind of oak

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Japanese

Kanji

棫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): よく (yoku), いき (iki), いく (iku)
• Kun: たら (tara), くぬぎ (kunugi)