羿

羿

羿 U+7FBF, 羿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FBF ← 羾 [U+7FBE] CJK Unified Ideographs 翀 → [U+7FC0]

Translingual

Han character

羿 (radical 124, 羽+3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 尸一廿 (SMT), four-corner 1744₂, composition ⿱羽廾)

References

• KangXi: page 955, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28625
• Dae Jaweon: page 1400, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3342, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7FBF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		羿

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (幵) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
笄	*kŋeː
枅	*kŋeː
蚈	*kŋeː, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
羿	*ŋeːs
栞	*ŋ̊ʰaːn
雃	*ŋaːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
詽	*ŋreːn, *tŋ̊ʰeːn
揅	*ŋeːn
幵	*kŋeːn
鳽	*kŋeːn, *ŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰreːŋ, *ŋreːɡ
豣	*kŋeːn, *ŋeːns
麉	*kŋeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːn
趼	*kŋeːnʔ, *ŋeːn, *ŋeːns
汧	*ŋ̊ʰeːn, *ŋ̊ʰeːns
岍	*ŋ̊ʰeːn
研	*ŋɡeːn, *ŋeːns
妍	*ŋeːn
訮	*hŋeːn
鈃	*ɡeːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋeːs) : semantic 羽 + phonetic 幵 (OC *kŋeːn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngai⁶
    • Yale: ngaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ŋei^H/▼

Rime
Character	羿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五計切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛjH/
Li Rong	/ŋeiH/
Wang Li	/ŋieiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ˤer-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	羿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ngejH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ˁer-s/
English	(name of legendary archer)
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	羿
Reading #	1/1
No.	6155
Phonetic component	幵
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	詣
Old Chinese	/*ŋeːs/
Notes	說文幵聲隸省變

Definitions

羿

1. (historical) the name of a legendary archer (also called 后羿)
2. A surname​.

Compounds

后羿 (Hòuyì)

后羿射日

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Japanese

Kanji

羿

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): げい (gei)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羿 (nghệ)

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