柅

柅 U+67C5, 柅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67C5 ← 柄 [U+67C4] CJK Unified Ideographs 柆 → [U+67C6]

Translingual

Han character

柅 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木尸心 (DSP), four-corner 4791₁, composition ⿰木尼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 518, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14605
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1189, character 9
• Unihan data for U+67C5

Chinese

trad.		柅
simp. #		柅

Glyph origin

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

Characters in the same phonetic series (尼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
泥	*niːl, *niːls
屔	*niːl
苨	*niːlʔ
坭	*niːlʔ
迡	*niːls
埿	*braːms, *niːl, *niːls
旎	*nilʔ
狔	*nilʔ
抳	*nilʔ
尼	*nil
呢	*nil
怩	*nil
柅	*nil, *nilʔ
蚭	*nil
跜	*nil
秜	*nil
痆	*rniːd
昵	*niɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nǐ (ni³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nei⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nǐ
    • Wade–Giles: ni³
    • Yale: nǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nii
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: nei⁵
    • Yale: néih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: néi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nei̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: nrij, nrijX

Rime
Character	柅	柅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	娘 (12)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	女夷切	女履切
Baxter	nrij	nrijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɳˠiɪ/	/ɳˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɳᵚi/	/ɳᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/niɪ/	/niɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɳji/	/ɳjiX/
Li Rong	/nji/	/njiX/
Wang Li	/ni/	/niX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ni/	/niX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ní	nǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nei4	nei5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*n<r>[ə]rʔ/, /*n<r>[ə]rʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*nil/, /*nilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	柅	柅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nǐ	nǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ nrijX ›	‹ nrijH ›
Old Chinese	/*n<r>[ə]rʔ/	/*n<r>[ə]rʔ-s/
English	a stopper for carriages	a stopper for carriages
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	柅	柅
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9431	9435
Phonetic component	尼	尼
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	尼	柅
Old Chinese	/*nil/	/*nilʔ/

Definitions

柅

1. (obsolete) a kind of tree
2. (obsolete) block of wood placed under the wheels of a carriage to stop it from moving
3. (archaic) to stop; to block; to obstruct
4. Used in 柅柅 (“flourishing; lush”).

Compounds

• 柅杜
• 柅柅
• 椅柅

 

Japanese

Kanji

柅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): じ (ji); に (ni)

Korean

Hanja

柅 (eum 니 (ni), South Korea 이 (i))

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