U+9FA0, 龠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9FA0

[U+9F9F]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9FA1]
U+2FD5, ⿕
KANGXI RADICAL FLUTE
[unassigned: U+2FD6–U+2FEF]

[U+2FD4]
Kangxi Radicals
[U+2FF0]

Translingual

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Stroke order
 

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #214, .
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №43

Derived characters

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References

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

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
alternative forms 𠎤
 
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Glyph origin

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

Pictogram (象形) – a bamboo Pan flute in which two mouths () perhaps indicate the round top of the bamboo pipes. In the bronze inscriptions, (a flipped ) was added on top to show a mouth playing the instrument.

Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): + , however his analysis does not match the original appearance. The bottom component is identical but unrelated to since it originally represents bamboo slips. The whole character is similar but unrelated to .

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (36)
Final () (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter yak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/jɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/jiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/iɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/jɨak̚/
Li
Rong
/iak̚/
Wang
Li
/jĭak̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/i̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
joek6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yuè
Middle
Chinese
‹ yak ›
Old
Chinese
/*lewk/
English flute; key; tube

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 16350
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lowɢ/

Definitions

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  1. yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)
  2. (historical) yue (an ancient Chinese unit of volume notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds)

Synonyms

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References

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  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 295.

Japanese

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Kanji

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(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. flute

Readings

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  • Go-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kan-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kun: ふえ (fue, )

Compounds

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Korean

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Hanja

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(yak) (hangeul , revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

  1. flute

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Nôm readings: dược, thược

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