衋

衋 U+884B, 衋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-884B ← 衊 [U+884A] CJK Unified Ideographs 行 → [U+884C]

Translingual

Han character

衋 (Kangxi radical 143, 血+18, 24 strokes, cangjie input 中手一日廿 (LQMAT), four-corner 5010₇, composition ⿱⿻聿皕血)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1108, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34026
• Dae Jaweon: page 1570, character 30
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3054, character 9
• Unihan data for U+884B
• International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database

Chinese

simp. and trad.		衋
alternative forms		䀌

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 聿 + phonetic 皕 (OC *prɯɡ) + semantic 血 (“blood”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xì (xi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: sik¹
    • Yale: sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɪk̚⁵/

Definitions

衋

1. (obsolete, rare) sorrowful; desolate; grief-stricken

   • 誕惟厥縱淫泆于非彝，用燕喪威儀，民罔不衋傷心。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     诞惟厥纵淫泆于非彝，用燕丧威仪，民罔不衋伤心。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dàn wéi jué zòng yínyì yú fēiyí, yòng yàn sàng wēiyí, mín wǎng bù xì shāngxīn. [Pinyin]

     Greatly abandoned to extraordinary lewdness and dissipation, for pleasure's sake he sacrificed all his majesty; for that the people were all sorely grieved and wounded in heart.

Japanese

Kanji

衋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Kan-on: きょく (kyoku)、こく (koku)
• Kun: いたむ (itamu, 衋む)、いためる (itameru, 衋める)

Vietnamese

Han character

衋: Hán Nôm readings: hực

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