疫

疫

疫 U+75AB, 疫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75AB ← 疪 [U+75AA] CJK Unified Ideographs 疬 → [U+75AC]

Translingual

Han character

疫 (radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹弓水 (KHNE), four-corner 0014₇, composition ⿸疒殳)

References

• KangXi: page 770, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22069
• Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2663, character 8
• Unihan data for U+75AB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		疫
variant forms		𤶣

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (役) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
椺	*ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ
役	*ɢʷeɡ
疫	*ɢʷeɡ
垼	*ɢʷeɡ
炈	*ɢʷeɡ
鈠	*ɢʷeɡ
豛	*ɢʷeɡ
坄	*doː, *leɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷeɡ) : semantic 疒 (“sickness”) + abbreviated phonetic 役 (OC *ɢʷeɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶
• Min Bei (KCR): ĭ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ia̍h / e̍k / ia̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mog⁸

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik⁶
    • Yale: yihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iah
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʔ¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
    • Tâi-lô: i̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ek
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /iɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚²⁴/

Note:

• ia̍h - vernacular;
• e̍k/ia̍k - literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mog⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mo̍k
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mok̚⁴/

Note: mog8 - vernacular (俗).

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 疫
Mandarin	Beijing	/i⁵¹/
	Harbin	/i⁵³/
	Tianjin	/i⁵³/
	Jinan	/i²¹/
	Qingdao	/i⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/i⁴²/
	Xi'an	/i²⁴/
	Xining	/ji²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/i¹³/
	Lanzhou	/i⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/i²¹³/
	Wuhan	/y²¹³/
	Chengdu	/yo³¹/
	Guiyang	/iu²¹/
	Kunming	/i³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʐuʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/yəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/yʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/i⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦioʔ¹/ /ɦyɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦyəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦioʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/jy²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/yʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/y⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/y²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/y²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/it̚⁵/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jek̚²/
	Nanning	/jek̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/jik̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/ik̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/iʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/i²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/mok̚⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/muak̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jwiᴇk̚/▼

Rime
Character	疫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	昔 (124)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	營隻切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jwiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iuæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iuɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭwɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯wɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷek/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷeɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ywek ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷek/
English	epidemic
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	疫
Reading #	1/1
No.	15007
Phonetic component	役
Rime group	錫
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	役
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷeɡ/

Definitions

疫

1. epidemic; plague; pestilence

Compounds

人工免疫 免疫 (miǎnyì) 免疫作用 免疫力 (miǎnyìlì) 免疫系統／免疫系统 (miǎnyì xìtǒng) 免疫血清 (miǎnyì xuèqīng) 動物檢疫／动物检疫 口服疫苗 口蹄疫 (kǒutíyì) 基礎免疫／基础免疫 天然免疫 時疫／时疫 (shíyì)

晚疫病 檢疫／检疫 (jiǎnyì) 沙克疫苗 沙賓疫苗／沙宾疫苗 活性疫苗 海港檢疫／海港检疫 混合疫苗 畜疫 疫區／疫区 (yìqū) 疫氣／疫气 (yìqì) 疫病 (yìbìng) 疫癘／疫疠 (yìlì)

疫苗 (yìmiáo) 疫鬼 (yìguǐ) 瘟疫 (wēnyì) 瘴疫 白喉疫苗 自然免疫 虎疫 被動免疫／被动免疫 防疫 (fángyì) 霍亂疫區／霍乱疫区 驗疫／验疫 鼠疫 (shǔyì)

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Japanese

Kanji

疫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. epidemic

Readings

• Go-on: やく (yaku, Jōyō, uncommon)
• Kan-on: えき (eki, Jōyō)
• Kun: え (e, 疫); えやみ (eyami)

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Korean

Hanja

疫 • (yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune–Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疫 (dịch)

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