挹

挹 U+6339, 挹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6339 ← 挸 [U+6338] CJK Unified Ideographs 挺 → [U+633A]

Translingual

Han character

挹 (radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口日山 (QRAU), four-corner 5601₇, composition ⿰扌邑)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

References

• KangXi: page 432, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12105
• Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1883, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6339

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		挹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唈	*qɯːb, *qrɯb
浥	*qrɯːb, *qab, *qrɯb
裛	*qrab, *qab, *qrɯb
俋	*r'ɯb
挹	*qɯb
邑	*qrɯb
悒	*qrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯb): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 邑 (OC *qrɯb).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
• Min Nan (POJ): iap

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade–Giles: i4
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jap¹
    • Yale: yāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iap
    • Tâi-lô: iap
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iab
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iap̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iap̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iap̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔiɪp̚/

Rime
Character	挹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	緝 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	伊入切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔip̚/
Li Rong	/ʔiəp̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jap1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qip/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	挹	挹	挹
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›
Old Chinese	/*qip/	/*qip/	/*qip/
English	to bow; suppress	to ladle out	suppress
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	挹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15020
Phonetic component	邑
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	揖
Old Chinese	/*qɯb/

Definitions

挹

1. (literary) to ladle out; scoop up

   我若能挹你以為眼,我將贈給那善歌的盲妹,她必明眸善睞了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我若能挹你以为眼,我将赠给那善歌的盲妹,她必明眸善睐了。 [MSC, simp.]

   From: 1924, 朱自清 (Zhu Ziqing), 綠 (Green)

   Wǒ ruò néng yì nǐ yǐ wéi yǎn, wǒ jiāng zènggěi nà shàn gē de mángmèi, tā bì míngmóushànlài le. [Pinyin]

   (please add an English translation of this example)

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Japanese

Kanji

挹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆう (yū), おう (ō)
• Kun: くむ (kumu)

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Korean

Hanja

挹 • (eup) (hangeul 읍, revised eup, McCune–Reischauer ŭp, Yale up)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

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Vietnamese

Han character

挹: Hán Nôm readings: úp

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