邑

See also: 阝, 阜, and 巴

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

⾢ U+2FA2, ⾢ KANGXI RADICAL CITY ← ⾡ [U+2FA1] Kangxi Radicals ⾣ → [U+2FA3]

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 阝 (when used as a right radical component)

Han character

邑 (Kangxi 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.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №229

Derived characters

• Appendix:Chinese radical/邑
• 俋, 唈, 㛕, 悒, 挹, 浥, 𨹝, 𫼷, 𤙝, 𦛞, 𥒵, 𦀕, 𧋾, 𨁲, 𨦺, 𩗥, 䭂, 𦤡, 䱒(𱇰), 𪁗, 𩫩, 𧠅
• 𢻌, 𮖄, 𠅔, 䓃, 𤕕, 𰻧, 䇼, 𠉲, 𪁨, 裛, 扈, 𤶛, 𪪘

Further reading

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		邑
alternative 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 (“enclosure; city wall”) + 卪 (“kneeling person”).

Etymology

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possible etymologies:

• From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *Ɂip (“shelter”), whence also 葺 (OC *ʔsib, *sʰib, *zib, “thatch”);
• Related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house”), whence Burmese အိမ် (im), Tibetan ཁྱིམ (khyim).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): jap¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): yip²

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yip

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yib⁵

• Min Bei (KCR): ĭ
• Min Dong (BUC): ék
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): ip

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ib⁴ / ig⁴

• Wu (Wiktionary): iq (T4)
• Xiang (Wiktionary): xi⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i4
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jap¹
    • Yale: yāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: yip²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jip̚⁵⁵/
• 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/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yib⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /ip̚¹/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ĭ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ék
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛiʔ²⁴/
• 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/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ib⁴ / ig⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ip / ik
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ip̚²/, /ik̚²/

Note: ig4 - Chenghai.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: iq (T4)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i̯ɪʔ⁵⁵/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: xi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi²⁴/

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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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jap1

• 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)
• 伊邑
• 伯邑考
• 四邑 (Sìyì)
• 城邑 (chéngyì)
• 大邑
• 大邑商 (Dàyìshāng)
• 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 (Luòyì)
• 食邑 (shíyì)
• 馬邑／马邑 (Mǎyì)
• 鬱邑／郁邑

References

• “邑”, 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–

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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

Kanji in this term
邑
ゆう Jinmeiyō
kan’on

Noun

邑(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←いふ (ifu)?}

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

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
邑
おおざと Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

Noun

邑(おおざと) • (ōzato) ^{←おほざと (ofozato)?}

1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

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Korean

Hanja

邑 (eumhun 고을 읍 (go'eul eup))

1. (geography) Hanja form^? of 읍 (“Town or eup, an administrative division larger and more populous than a "리" (village) but smaller and less populous than a "군" (county) or "시" (city)”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

邑: Hán Nôm readings: ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp

1. chữ Hán form of ấp (“hamlet”).