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Translingual

Han character

(radical 184 +7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 人戈月女 (OIBV), four-corner 82744)

  1. hungry, starving, famished

References

  • KangXi: page 1420, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44163
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1945, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4457, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+9912

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*n̥ʰoːlʔ
*n̥ʰoːlʔ
*noːl, *snuːl
*n̥ʰuːlʔ
*n̥ʰuːlʔ, *nuːlʔ
*nuːlʔ
*nuːlʔ, *snul
*nuːlʔ
*nuːlʔ
*snul
*snul
*snɯl
*njul

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (8)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nuʌiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/nuoiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/nuɒiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nwəjX/
Li
Rong
/nuᴀiX/
Wang
Li
/nuɒiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nuɑ̆iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nuǐ
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
něi
Middle
Chinese
‹ nwojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˤujʔ/
English hungry, starve

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. 12590
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːlʔ/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(noe) (hangeul , revised noe, McCune-Reischauer noe, Yale noy)

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