邑

See also: 阝, 阜, and 巴

邑 U+9091, 邑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9091 ← 邐 [U+9090] CJK Unified Ideographs 邒 → [U+9092]

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 阝 (when used as a right Chinese Radical)

Han character

邑 (radical 163, 邑+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口日山 (RAU) or X口日山 (XRAU), four-corner 6071₇, composition ⿱口巴)

1. Kangxi radical #163, ⾢.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/邑

References

• KangXi: page 1267, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39269
• Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9091

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		邑
variant forms		阝 radical

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邑
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 囗 + 卪.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yip
• Min Nan (POJ): ip

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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/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yip
    • Hakka Romanization System: ib`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yib<sup>5</sup>
    • Sinological IPA: /ip̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yip
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)ib`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yib⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)ip̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ip
    • Tâi-lô: ip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ib
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ip̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʔˠiɪp̚/▼

Rime
Character	邑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	於汲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjip̚/
Li Rong	/ʔjəp̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕp̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*q(r)[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qrɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔip ›
Old Chinese	/*q(r)[ə]p/
English	city, town
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	邑
Reading #	1/1
No.	15021
Phonetic component	邑
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邑
Old Chinese	/*qrɯb/

Definitions

邑

1. state; country; nation
2. capital; capital city
3. city; town
4. area; district
5. Original form of 悒 (yì, “to worry; anxious”).

Compounds

• 下邑
• 京邑 (jīngyì)
• 伯邑考
• 城邑 (chéngyì)
• 大邑
• 天邑
• 家邑
• 巖邑／岩邑 (yányì)
• 悁邑
• 新邑
• 於邑／于邑

• 湯沐邑／汤沐邑
• 皇邑
• 蒲邑三善
• 通都大邑
• 邑人 (yìrén)
• 邑侯
• 邑君
• 邑子
• 邑宰
• 邑庠
• 邑犬群吠

• 邑邑
• 邑里
• 郡邑
• 都邑 (dūyì)
• 鄹邑
• 采邑 (càiyì)
• 阿邑
• 雒邑
• 食邑 (shíyì)
• 馬邑／马邑 (Mǎyì)
• 鬱邑／郁邑

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Japanese

Kanji

邑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←おふ (ofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あふ (afu, historical)}; ゆう (yū)^{←いふ (ifu, historical)}
• Kun: くに (kuni, 邑); むら (mura, 邑); うれえる (ureeru, 邑える); さと (sato, 邑)
• Nanori: すみ (sumi)

Etymology 1

Noun

邑 (hiragana ゆう, rōmaji yū, historical hiragana いふ)

1. Eup, an administrative division in Korea like a town

Etymology 2

Noun

邑 (hiragana おおざと, rōmaji ōzato, historical hiragana おほざと)

1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. (geography) Town or eup, an administrative division larger and more populous than a ri (village) but smaller and less populous than a county (gun) or city (si).

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Vietnamese

Han character

邑 (ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp)

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