羠

羠 U+7FA0, 羠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FA0 ← 羟 [U+7F9F] CJK Unified Ideographs 羡 → [U+7FA1]

Translingual

Han character

羠 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿手大弓 (TQKN), four-corner 8553₂, composition ⿰羊夷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 952, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28481
• Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3131, character 15
• Unihan data for U+7FA0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		羠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
桋	*l'iːl, *lil
荑	*l'iːl, *lil
銕	*l'iːl, *l̥ʰiːd
鴺	*l'iːl, *lil
鮧	*l'iːl, *lil
洟	*l̥ʰiːls, *lil
羠	*ljilʔ, *lil
咦	*hril
夷	*lil
姨	*lil
痍	*lil
峓	*lil
恞	*lil
眱	*lil
蛦	*lil
胰	*lil, *lɯ
跠	*lil

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: yij, zijX

Rime
Character	羠	羠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	以脂切	徐姊切
Baxter	yij	zijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiɪ/	/zˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/ji/	/zᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/jɪ/	/ziɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ji/	/zjiX/
Li Rong	/i/	/zjiX/
Wang Li	/ji/	/ziX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i/	/ziX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí	sì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji4	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljilʔ/, /*lil/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羠	羠
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	14860	14873
Phonetic component	夷	夷
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	兕	姨
Old Chinese	/*ljilʔ/	/*lil/

Definitions

羠

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) castrated ram, wether
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) female wild goat