黳

黳 U+9EF3, 黳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EF3 ← 黲 [U+9EF2] CJK Unified Ideographs 黴 → [U+9EF4]

Translingual

Han character

黳 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+11, 23 strokes, cangjie input 尸水田土火 (SEWGF), four-corner 7733₁, composition ⿱殹黑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1521, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48192
• Dae Jaweon: page 2056, character 38
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4755, character 2
• Unihan data for U+9EF3

Chinese

trad.		黳
simp. #		黳
alternative forms		𩯗

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yī
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yi
    • Wade–Giles: i¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ji¹
    • Yale: yī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej

Rime
Character	黳
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切
Baxter	'ej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/
Li Rong	/ʔei/
Wang Li	/iei/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	黳
Reading #	1/1
No.	15048
Phonetic component	医
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖
Old Chinese	/*qiː/

Definitions

黳

1. (obsolete) black

   • 我髯黳數寸，君髮白千莖。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     我髯黳数寸，君发白千茎。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 810, Yuan Zhen, 《答姨兄胡靈之見寄五十韻》

     Wǒ rán yī shù cùn, jūn fà bái qiān jīng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B06254
• “黳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–