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Translingual

Han character

(radical 72 +13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日月月水 (ABBE), four-corner 62047, composition)

  1. obscure, dim, ambiguous, vague

References

  • KangXi: page 500, character 38
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14206
  • Dae Jaweon: page 871, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1538, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+66D6

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*qɯːds
*qɯːds, *qaːds
*qɯːds, *qɯlʔ
*qɯːds, *qɯlʔ
*qɯːds
*qɯːds
*qaːds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯːds, *qaːds) : semantic  (sun) + phonetic  (OC *qɯːds).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (34) (34)
Final () (25) (41)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑiH/ /ʔʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑiH/ /ʔəiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑiH/ /ʔɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔajH/ /ʔəjH/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑiH/ /ʔᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/ɑiH/ /ɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑiH/ /ʔɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ài ài
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2 8
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯːds/ /*qaːds/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark, not clear

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ae) (hangeul , revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae, Yale ay)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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