隈

隈

隈 U+9688, 隈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9688 ← 隇 [U+9687] CJK Unified Ideographs 隉 → [U+9689]

Translingual

Han character

隈 (radical 170, 阜+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓中田一女 (NLWMV), four-corner 7623₂, composition ⿰⻖畏)

References

• KangXi: page 1357, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41748
• Dae Jaweon: page 1861, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4146, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9688

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		隈

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (畏) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
煨	*quːl
偎	*quːl
隈	*quːl, *quːls
椳	*quːl
鰃	*quːl
渨	*quːl
葨	*quːl
揋	*quːl
猥	*quːlʔ
嵔	*quːlʔ, *qulʔ
鍡	*quːlʔ
碨	*quːlʔ, *qruːl
腲	*quːlʔ
餵	*qrols
畏	*quls

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wēi (wei¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wui¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: wēi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟ
    • Wade–Giles: wei¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uei
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wei
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wui¹
    • Yale: wūi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wui¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wui¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuːy̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔuʌi/, /ʔuʌi^H/▼

Rime
Character	隈	隈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏恢切	烏繢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuʌi/	/ʔuʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuoi/	/ʔuoiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔuɒi/	/ʔuɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔwəj/	/ʔwəjH/
Li Rong	/ʔuᴀi/	/ʔuᴀiH/
Wang Li	/uɒi/	/uɒiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔuɑ̆i/	/ʔuɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wēi	wèi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ˤuj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*quːl/, /*quːls/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	隈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wēi
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔwoj ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]ˁuj/
English	bend, nook (n.)
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	隈	隈
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12924	12935
Phonetic component	畏	畏
Rime group	微	微
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	隈	𩲄
Old Chinese	/*quːl/	/*quːls/

Definitions

隈

1. cove, bay, inlet

Compounds

隈隩

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Japanese

Kanji

隈

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. recess
2. corner
3. shade

Readings

• Go-on: え (e)
• Kan-on: わい (wai)
• Kun: くま (kuma, 隈); すみ (sumi, 隈); よる (yoru)

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Korean

Hanja

隈 • (oe)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 외 (revised: oe, McCune–Reischauer: oe, Yale: oy)
  • Name (hangeul): 굽이

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