U+57C3, 埃
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-57C3

[U+57C2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+57C4]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 32, +7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 土戈人大 (GIOK), four-corner 43134, composition )

Derived characters edit

See also edit

  • Chinese Numeral

Further reading edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 229, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5107
  • Dae Jaweon: page 465, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 447, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+57C3

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *qlɯː) : semantic (earth; soil) + phonetic (OC *ɢlɯʔ).

Etymology 1 edit

Pronunciation edit


Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.
Note:
  • ai - literary;
  • ia - vernacular.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (34)
Final () (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter 'oj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔəi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔəj/
Li
Rong
/ʔᴀi/
Wang
Li
/ɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
āi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
oi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
āi
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*qˁə/
English dust

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 14933
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qlɯː/

Definitions edit

  1. fine dust, dirt
      ―  chén'āi  ―  dust
  2. one ten-billionth, the number 10-10
Synonyms edit

Compounds edit

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit


Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Definitions edit

  1. Used in transcription.
      ―  Āi  ―  Egypt
    塞俄比亞塞俄比亚  ―  Āisài'ébǐyà  ―  Ethiopia
    蘇維苏维  ―  sūwéi'āi  ―  soviet
  2. Short for 埃及 (Āijí, “Egypt”).

Compounds edit

Etymology 3 edit

Short for 埃斯特朗 or 埃格斯特朗 (āigésītèlǎng).

Pronunciation edit


  This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!
Particularly: “Cantonese aai1, oi1 or both?”

Definitions edit

  1. angstrom

Etymology 4 edit

Pronunciation edit


Definitions edit

  1. (Shanghainese) that
Synonyms edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings edit

Noun edit

Kanji in this term
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

(あい) (ai

  1. one ten-billionth

Noun edit

Kanji in this term
ほこり
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

(ほこり) (hokori

  1. dust

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(eumhun 티끌 (tikkeul ae))

  1. fine dust, dirt

References edit

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Việt readings: ai
: Nôm readings: ai

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References edit