緎

緎 U+7DCE, 緎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCE ← 緍 [U+7DCD] CJK Unified Ideographs 総 → [U+7DCF]

Translingual

Han character

緎 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火戈口一 (VFIRM), four-corner 2395₀, composition ⿰糹或)

1. seam

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27608
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3410, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7DCE

Chinese

trad.		緎
simp.		𰬟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (或) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
幗	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
慖	*kʷɯːɡs, *kʷrɯːɡ
簂	*kʷɯːɡs
蔮	*kʷɯːɡs
國	*kʷɯːɡ
或	*ɡʷɯːɡ
惑	*ɡʷɯːɡ
蜮	*ɡʷɯːɡ, *ɢʷrɯɡ
閾	*qʰʷrɯɡ
緎	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
淢	*qʰʷrɯɡ, *ɡʷrɯɡ
域	*ɢʷrɯɡ
罭	*ɢʷrɯɡ
棫	*ɡʷrɯɡ
琙	*ɡʷrɯɡ
魊	*ɡʷrɯɡ
馘	*kʷrɯːɡ
聝	*kʷrɯːɡ
膕	*kʷrɯːɡ
摑	*kʷrɯːɡ
漍	*kʷrɯːɡ
嘓	*kʷrɯːɡ
蟈	*kʷrɯːɡ
掝	*qʰʷrɯːɡ
彧	*qʷrɯɡ
稶	*qʷɯɡ

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wik⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: wik⁶
    • Yale: wihk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wik⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wig⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɪk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: hwik, xwik

Rime
Character	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	云 (35)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	職 (135)	職 (135)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	雨逼切	況逼切
Baxter	hwik	xwik
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦwɨk̚/	/hwɨk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨk̚/	/hʷɨk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuek̚/	/xiuek̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦwik̚/	/hwik̚/
Li Rong	/ɣiuək̚/	/xiuək̚/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwək̚/	/xĭwək̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯wək̚/	/xi̯wək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù	xu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wik6	hik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ]ʷrək/, /*qʷʰrək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰʷrɯɡ/, /*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ hwik ›	‹ xwik ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ]ʷrək/	/*qʷʰrək/
English	bundle of threads	bundle of threads
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	緎	緎
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	5552	5559
Phonetic component	或	或
Rime group	職	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	洫	域
Old Chinese	/*qʰʷrɯɡ/	/*ɡʷrɯɡ/

Definitions

緎

1. seam
2. (obsolete) Classifier for bundles of silk threads.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hi̍t

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hi̍t
    • Tâi-lô: hi̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hit
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hit̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hit̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hit̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hit̚⁴/

Definitions

緎

1. (Hokkien) to sway back and forth; to shake back and forth
2. (Mainland China Hokkien) to be swung back and forth (in the air, such as seesaws, etc.)
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to use every means to move (a person to accept a position, etc.)
4. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to compete; to contend

Compounds

• 緎手 / 𰬟手

Japanese

Kanji

緎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. seam

Readings

• On (unclassified): よく (yoku)、いき (iki)、きょく (kyoku)、こく (koku)、いく (iku)
• Kun: ぬいかぎり (nuikagiri)