龠

龠 U+9FA0, 龠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9FA0 ← 龟 [U+9F9F] CJK Unified Ideographs 龡 → [U+9FA1]

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TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

Han characterEdit

龠 (radical 214, 龠+0, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人一口月 (OMRB), four-corner 8022₇, composition ⿳亼𠱠𠕁)

1. Kangxi radical #214, ⿕.

Derived charactersEdit

• Index:Chinese radical/龠
• 㒢, 𢅹, 瀹, 𨙄, 𭨑, 爚, 𥌺, 禴, 𥤉, 𦇬, 𧕋, 𧟇, 讑, 𧹊, 䟑, 䠯, 鑰, 𮪟, 𮯘, 𭨣, 蘥, 籥, 𨷲(𨸎), 㿜

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1538, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48882
• Dae Jaweon: page 2080, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4807, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9FA0

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		龠
alt. forms		𠎤

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 龠
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 (龠) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
讑	*lowɢs
籲	*los
爚	*hljowɢ, *lowɢ
禴	*lowɢ
蘥	*lowɢ
鑰	*lowɢ
瀹	*lowɢ
龠	*lowɢ
籥	*lowɢ
鸙	*lowɢ

Pictogram (象形) – a woodwind instrument. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added to show a mouth playing the instrument.

Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意): 品 + 侖.

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuè (yue⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): joek⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): yok
• Min Nan (POJ): io̍k / ia̍k

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: yuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yueh
    • IPA ^(key): /y̯œ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: joek⁶
    • Yale: yeuhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: joek⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yêg⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /jœːk̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yok
    • Hakka Romanization System: iog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog<sup>5</sup>
    • IPA: /i̯ok̚²/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yok
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)iog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yog⁵
    • IPA: /(j)i̯ok̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: io̍k
    • Tâi-lô: io̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iok
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɔk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɔk̚²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: iak
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iak̚¹²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /jɨɐk̚/▼

Rime
Character	龠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	以灼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jɨak̚/
Li Rong	/iak̚/
Wang Li	/jĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuè

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*lowɢ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	龠
Reading #	1/1
No.	16350
Phonetic component	龠
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	藥
Old Chinese	/*lowɢ/

DefinitionsEdit

龠

1. musical instrument which contains the bamboo tube and has three or other numbers of holes
2. an ancient unit of volume

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

龠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. flute

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: やく (yaku)
• Kan’on: やく (yaku)
• Kun: ふえ (fue, 龠)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

• 一龠 (いちやく) (ichiyaku, “a unit of volume equal to 1,200 millet grains”)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

龠 • (yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

龠 (dược, thược)

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ReferencesEdit

• Nom Foundation