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疑

疑

Translingual

Han character

疑 (radical 103 疋+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心大弓戈人 (PKNIO), four-corner 27481, composition ⿰𠤕⿱龴疋)

  1. doubt, question, suspect

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 768, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22007
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1178, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2751, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7591

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 疑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礙 *ŋɯːs
儗 *ŋɯːs, *hŋɯːs, *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯs
懝 *ŋɯːs, *ŋɯɡ
譺 *ŋrɯːs, *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯs
癡 *ŋ̥ʰl'ɯ
疑 *ŋɯ
嶷 *ŋɯ, *ŋɯɡ
觺 *ŋɯ
擬 *ŋɯʔ
薿 *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯɡ
凝 *ŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋs

Pictogram (象形) – old man with cane asking for directions, doubting his way (a figure with a cane in one hand, head a large mouth).

Current form is radically abstracted, with elements varying greatly in intermediate scripts – graphically 匕 + 矢 on left, マ + 疋 on right.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 疑
Mandarin Beijing /i³⁵/
Harbin /i²⁴/
Tianjin /i⁴⁵/
Jinan /i⁴²/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /ni²⁴/
Xining /ji²⁴/
Yinchuan /i⁵³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i⁵¹/
Wuhan /ni²¹³/
Chengdu /ȵi³¹/
Guiyang /ni²¹/ 老
/i²¹/ 新
Kunming /ni³¹/
Nanjing /i²⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /i¹¹/
Pingyao /ȵi¹³/
Hohhot /i³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ȵi¹³/
Hangzhou /ȵi²¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi³¹/
Hui Shexian /ni⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ȵi⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /ȵi¹³/
Xiangtan /ȵi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ȵi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /ŋi¹¹/
Taoyuan /ŋi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ji²¹/
Nanning /ni²¹/
Hong Kong /ji²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gi³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋi²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /gi⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋi³¹/
Rime
Character 疑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 語其切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ŋiə/
Wang
Li		 /ŋĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 疑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngi ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ŋ](r)ə/ (< uvular)
English doubt

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 疑
Reading # 1/1
No. 14894
Phonetic
component		 疑
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 疑
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋɯ/
Notes 甲金文象人行道回顧遲疑狀，金文或加牛聲後訛爲子，非矢聲

Definitions

疑

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Japanese

Kanji

疑

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. doubt

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

疑 • ‎(ui, eung) (hangeul 의, 응, revised ui, eung, McCune-Reischauer ŭi, ŭng, Yale uy, ung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疑 (nghi)

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