See also:
U+5049, 偉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5049

[U+5048]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+504A]

TranslingualEdit

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Alternative formsEdit

In Japanese kanji, the bottom component of is written with four strokes. In Traditional Chinese, the bottom component is written with three strokes.

Han characterEdit

(Kangxi radical 9, +9 in Chinese, 人+10 in Japanese, 11 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人木一手 (ODMQ), four-corner 24256, composition)

Derived charactersEdit

Related charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 110, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 837
  • Dae Jaweon: page 234, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 198, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5049

ChineseEdit

trad.
simp.

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   



References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
  • Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɢʷɯlʔ): semantic + phonetic (OC *ɢʷɯl).

PronunciationEdit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (35)
Final () (21)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦujX/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuəiX/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/we̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wěi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wai5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 12825
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢʷɯlʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

  1. extraordinary; magnificent; great; robust

AntonymsEdit

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

Shinjitai  
Kyūjitai
[1]

偉󠄃
+󠄃?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
 
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KanjiEdit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. admirable

ReadingsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: S
on’yomi

/wi//i/

From Middle Chinese (MC ɦʉiX).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

() (i (wi)?

  1. (literary) greatness

AdjectiveEdit

() (i (wi)? -na (adnominal () (i na), adverbial () (i ni))

  1. (literary) great
InflectionEdit

AffixEdit

() (i (wi)?

  1. great, excellent, magnificent, extraordinary
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term
えら
Grade: S
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see えらい.
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entry is uncreated: えらい.)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ ”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)[1] (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
  2. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

(eumhun 훌륭할 (hullyunghal wi))

  1. Hanja form? of (to be extraordinary).

CompoundsEdit

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

: Hán Nôm readings: , vỉ

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Derived termsEdit