U+59E8, 姨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59E8

[U+59E7]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+59E9]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 38, +6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 女大弓 (VKN), four-corner 45432, composition )

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 260, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6222
  • Dae Jaweon: page 526, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1043, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+59E8

Chinese edit

trad.
simp. #
2nd round simp. 𫰆

Glyph origin edit

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *lil): semantic (woman) + phonetic (OC *lil).

Pronunciation edit


Note: yír - “maternal aunt”.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ji/
Shao
Rongfen
/jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ji/
Li
Rong
/i/
Wang
Li
/ji/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 14863
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lil/

Definitions edit

  1. maternal aunt (mother's sister)
      ―  èr   ―  mother's second eldest sister
  2. sister-in-law (wife's sister)
  3. aunt (a term of address for a woman around one's mother's age or slightly younger)
  4. (historical) father's concubine

Synonyms edit

  • (maternal aunt):

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings edit

  • Go-on: (i)
  • Kan-on: (i)
  • Kun: おば (oba, )

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term

Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC yij).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

() (i

  1. a wife's sister; more specifically, a wife's younger sister
  2. a mother's sister, a maternal aunt
  3. a mistress (extramarital female lover); more specifically, a father's mistress

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
いもしゅうとめ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
妹姑いもしゅうとめ
[noun] a wife's sister
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean edit

Hanja edit

(i) (hangeul , revised i, McCune–Reischauer i)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: di,

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