匜

匜 U+531C, 匜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-531C ← 匛 [U+531B] CJK Unified Ideographs 匝 → [U+531D]

Translingual

Han character

匜 (Kangxi radical 22, 匚+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 尸心木 (SPD), four-corner 7171₁, composition ⿷匚也)

1. basin
2. container for wine

Derived characters

• 𧦩

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 153, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2598
• Dae Jaweon: page 345, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 82, character 6
• Unihan data for U+531C

Chinese

trad.		匜
simp. #		匜
alternative forms		釶 鉇 也

Wikipedia has an article on:

• 匜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 匜
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 (也) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
他	*l̥ʰaːl
拖	*l̥ʰaːl, *l̥ʰaːls
駞	*l'aːl
池	*l'aːl, *l'al
灺	*ljalʔ
鍦	*ɦljaːl, *hljal, *hljals
虵	*ɦljal, *laːlʔ, *lal
也	*laːlʔ
忚	*hleːl
髢	*l'eːls
杝	*l̥ʰalʔ, *l'alʔ, *lal
肔	*l̥ʰalʔ, *lalʔ
馳	*l'al
阤	*l'alʔ, *hljalʔ
施	*hljal, *hljals
絁	*hljal
葹	*hljal
弛	*hljalʔ
箷	*lal
衪	*lel, *lalʔ
暆	*lel
迆	*lal, *lalʔ
酏	*lal, *lalʔ
匜	*lal, *lalʔ
迤	*lalʔ
扡	*lalʔ
崺	*lalʔ
貤	*lals, *ɦljels, *lels
地	*l'els

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *lal, *lalʔ) and ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): semantic 匚 (“container”) + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yí (yi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yí
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yí
    • Wade–Giles: i²
    • Yale: yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ji⁴
    • Yale: yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ye, yeX

Rime
Character	匜	匜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	弋支切	移爾切
Baxter	ye	yeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇ/	/jiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛ/	/jiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/jɛ/	/jɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiə̆/	/jiə̆X/
Li Rong	/ie/	/ieX/
Wang Li	/jǐe/	/jǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ie̯/	/ie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí	yǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4	ji5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*laj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*lal/, /*lalʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	匜
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ ye ›
Old Chinese	/*laj/
English	ewer
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	匜	匜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14797	14802
Phonetic component	也	也
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	移	酏
Old Chinese	/*lal/	/*lalʔ/

Definitions

匜

1. (historical) yi (a kind of bronze gourd-shaped vessel for holding water)

Compounds

• 槃匜
• 盤匜 / 盘匜

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 匜

匜

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. vessel for water

Readings

• On (unclassified): い (i)、た (ta)、だ (da)
• Kun: ひさげ (hisage)、はんぞう (hanzō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
匜
い Hyōgai
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i]

Noun

匜(い) • (i) 

1. (historical) yi (a kind of bronze gourd-shaped vessel for holding water)

References

• “匜”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “匜” in Weblio Dictionary.

Korean

Hanja

匜 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i)

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