緌

緌 U+7DCC, 緌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCC ← 緋 [U+7DCB] CJK Unified Ideographs 緍 → [U+7DCD]

Translingual

Han character

緌 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹木女 (VFHDV), four-corner 2294₄, composition ⿰糹委)

Derived characters

• 𦿿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27605
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3415, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7DCC

Chinese

trad.		緌
simp.		𮉫
alternative forms		𡱵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
矮	*qraːlʔ
躷	*qraːlʔ
捼	*noːl, *nuːl, *njul
倭	*qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol
涹	*qoːl
踒	*qoːl
餧	*nuːlʔ, *qrols
諉	*nols, *qrolʔ
痿	*njol, *qrol
萎	*qrol, *qrols
逶	*qrol
覣	*qrol
蜲	*qrol, *qrolʔ
委	*qrol, *qrolʔ
緌	*njul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *njul) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 委 (OC *qrol, *qrolʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruí (rui²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jeoi⁴, jeoi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ruí
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ruéi
    • Wade–Giles: jui²
    • Yale: rwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruei
    • Palladius: жуй (žuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jeoi⁴, jeoi⁶
    • Yale: yèuih, yeuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joey⁴, joey⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêu⁴, yêu⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɵy̯²¹/, /jɵy̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: nywij

Rime
Character	緌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	儒隹切
Baxter	nywij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjuɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵwi/
Li Rong	/ȵui/
Wang Li	/ȵʑwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑwi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ruí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jeoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nuj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ruí
Middle Chinese	‹ nywij ›
Old Chinese	/*nuj/
English	tassel
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	緌
Reading #	1/1
No.	12908
Phonetic component	委
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	蕤
Old Chinese	/*njul/
Notes	疑本妥聲

Definitions

緌

1. ^† tassels hanging from hat

   • 葛屨五兩，冠緌雙止。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     葛屦五两，冠𮉫双止。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Gě jù wǔ liǎng, guān ruí shuāng zhǐ. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03396

Japanese

Kanji

緌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. tassels hanging from hat

Readings

• On (unclassified): ずい (zui); に (ni)
• Kun: おいかけ (oikake); はた (hata); ひも (himo); ほおすけ (hōsuke)

Korean

Hanja

緌 • (yu) (hangeul 유)

1. a hat string (tied under the chin)
2. hang down

Vietnamese

Han character

緌: Hán Nôm readings: nhuy

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