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鯉

See also: 鲤
鯉 U+9BC9, 鯉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BC9
← 鯈
[U+9BC8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鯊 →
[U+9BCA]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

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Stroke order (Japan)
 

鯉 (Kangxi radical 195, 魚+7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田土 (NFWG), four-corner 26314, composition ⿰魚里)

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1471, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2003, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4691, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9BC9

Chinese edit

trad. 鯉
simp. 鲤

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯʔ) : semantic 魚 (“fish”) + phonetic 里 (OC *rɯʔ).

Etymology edit

Schuessler (2007) considers connection to Proto-Tai *plaːᴬ (“fish”) to be unlikely.

Norman (2014) compares it to Proto-Kam-Tai *mbləi (“carp”), suggesting that it may be an early loan from Chinese; compare Thai ปลาไน (nai, “common carp”), Lakkia [script needed] (-plai⁴, “carp”).

See the entry 雙鯉魚 for the figurative senses.

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • dì - vernacular;
  • lǐ - literary.
Note:
  • lí - literary;
  • lē/lě, tāi/tai/tâi/tǎi - vernacular (often written as 鮘 or 𩸙).
Rime
Character 鯉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 良士切
Baxter liX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɨX/
Li
Rong 		/liəX/
Wang
Li 		/lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lei5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鯉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mə-rəʔ/
English carp (n.)

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 鯉
Reading # 1/1
No. 7828
Phonetic
component 		里
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		里
Old
Chinese 		/*rɯʔ/

Definitions edit

鯉

  1. carp, especially the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
  2. (literary, figuratively) letter; correspondence
  3. (literary, figuratively) messenger

Synonyms edit

Dialectal synonyms of 鯉魚 (“carp”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 鯉
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 鯉魚, 鯉
Taxonomic name 鯉
Mandarin Beijing 鯉魚
Taiwan 鯉魚
Tianjin 拐子
Harbin 鯉子, 鯉魚
Yantai (Muping) 鯉魚
Jinan 鯉魚
Luoyang 鯉魚
Xi'an 鯉魚
Yinchuan 鯉魚
Lanzhou 鯉魚
Xining 鯉魚
Ürümqi 鯉魚
Wuhan 鯉魚
Chengdu 鯉魚
Guiyang 鯉魚
Liuzhou 鯉魚
Xuzhou 鯉魚, 紅魚
Yangzhou 鯉魚, 龍魚, 花魚
Nanjing 鯉魚
Hefei 鯉魚
Singapore 鯉魚
Cantonese Guangzhou 鯉魚
Hong Kong 鯉魚
Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou) 鯉魚
Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) 鯉魚
Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau) 鯉魚
Dongguan 鯉魚
Yangjiang 鯉魚
Gan Nanchang 鯉魚
Lichuan 鯉魚
Pingxiang 鯉魚
Hakka Meixian 鯉魚, 鯉仔
Yudu 鯉魚, 鯉子
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 鯉仔, 鯉嫲
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 鯉仔, 鯉嫲
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 鯉仔, 鯉嫲
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 鯉魚, 鯉嫲
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 鯉仔, 鯉嫲
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 鯉
Hong Kong 鯉嫲
Huizhou Jixi 鯉魚
Jin Taiyuan 鯉魚
Xinzhou 鯉魚
Northern Min Jian'ou 鯉仔
Eastern Min Fuzhou 鯉魚
Southern Min Xiamen 鯉魚, 鮘魚
Xiamen (Tong'an) 鮘魚
Quanzhou 鯉魚
Jinjiang 鮘魚
Yongchun 鮘魚
Zhangzhou 鮘仔魚, 鮘仔, 鯉魚
Taipei 鮘魚
Taipei (Wanhua) 鮘仔
New Taipei (Sanxia) 鮘仔
Kaohsiung 鮘仔, 鯉魚, 鮘仔魚
Yilan 鮘魚, 鯉魚, 鮘仔魚
Changhua (Lukang) 鮘魚, 鯉魚
Taichung 烏鮘仔, 鯉魚, 鮘仔魚
Taichung (Wuqi) 鮘仔魚
Tainan 鮘仔魚, 鯉魚, 鮘仔
Taitung 鮘仔
Hsinchu 鯉魚, 鮘仔, 鮘仔魚
Kinmen 鯉魚
Penghu (Magong) 鮘魚, 鯉魚
Chaozhou 鯉魚
Haikou 鯉魚
Puxian Min Putian 鯉魚
Putian (Donghai) 鯉魚
Putian (Jiangkou) 鯉魚
Putian (Nanri) 鯉魚
Xianyou 鯉魚
Xianyou (Fengting) 鯉魚
Xianyou (Youyang) 鯉魚
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 鯉魚
Wu Shanghai 鯉魚, 元寶魚
Shanghai (Chongming) 鯉魚
Suzhou 鯉魚
Danyang 鯉魚
Hangzhou 鯉魚, 鯉拐兒
Ningbo 元寶魚, 鯉魚
Wenzhou 鯉魚
Jinhua 鯉魚
Xiang Changsha 鯉魚, 鯉滑子
Loudi 鯉魚
Shuangfeng 鯉魚

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

鯉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Etymology edit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
鯉
こい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/ko1pi1/ → /kopi/ → /kofi/ → */kowi/ → /koi/

From Old Japanese, attested in the Nihon Shoki.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

鯉(こい) or 鯉(コイ) • (koi) ←こひ (kofi) or コヒ (kofi)?

  1. carp, specifically, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Usage notes edit

  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as コイ.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

See also edit

Proper noun edit

鯉(こい) • (Koi) ←こひ (kofi)?

  1. a surname

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja edit

鯉 • (ri>i) (hangeul 리>이, revised ri>i, McCune–Reischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

鯉: Hán Nôm readings: lí

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