苡

苡

苡 U+82E1, 苡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82E1 ← 苠 [U+82E0] CJK Unified Ideographs 苢 → [U+82E2]

Translingual

Han character

苡 (radical 140, 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿女戈人 (TVIO), four-corner 4418₀, composition ⿱艹以)

References

• KangXi: page 1023, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30792
• Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3185, character 9
• Unihan data for U+82E1

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		苡

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (以) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
似	*ljɯʔ
姒	*ljɯʔ
耜	*ljɯʔ
佀	*ljɯʔ
以	*lɯʔ
苡	*lɯʔ
苢	*lɯʔ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐ (yi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˇ
    • Wade–Giles: i³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yyi
    • IPA ^(key): /i²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji⁵
    • Yale: yíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /jiː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨ^X/▼

Rime
Character	苡
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊己切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/jɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨX/
Li Rong	/iəX/
Wang Li	/jĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ləʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	苡
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ yiX ›
Old Chinese	/*ləʔ/
English	Plantago
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	苡
Reading #	1/1
No.	14930
Phonetic component	以
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	以
Old Chinese	/*lɯʔ/
Notes	說文作苢

Definitions

苡

1. Job's tears
2. (alt. form 苢) Used in 芣苡.

Compounds

芣苡 苡仁 苡米

薏苡 (yìyǐ) 薏苡之謗／薏苡之谤

薏苡仁 (yìyǐrén) 薏苡明珠

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Japanese

Kanji

苡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i); し (shi); わ (wa)

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Korean

Hanja

苡 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苡 (dĩ)

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