翳

翳 U+7FF3, 翳 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FF3 ← 翲 [U+7FF2] CJK Unified Ideographs 翴 → [U+7FF4]

Translingual

Han character

翳 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸水尸一一 (SESMM), four-corner 7712₇, composition ⿱殹羽)

Derived characters

• 𭌣, 𡤖, 蠮, 蘙

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 959, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28796
• Dae Jaweon: page 1405, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3355, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7FF3

Chinese

trad.		翳
simp. #		翳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翳
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
鷖	*qiː
翳	*qiː, *qiːs
嫛	*qiː
黳	*qiː
繄	*qiː, *qiːs
医	*qiːs
嫕	*qiːs
蘙	*qiːs
瞖	*qiːs
殹	*qiːs
贀	*ɢʷis
醫	*qɯ
毉	*qɯ
蠮	*qiːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qiː, *qiːs): phonetic 殹 (OC *qiːs) + semantic 羽.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ai³
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): yi¹
• Eastern Min (BUC): ié
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): e⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): è / ì

  (Teochew, Peng'im): i³ / e³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: ai³
    • Yale: ai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yi¹
    • Sinological IPA: /i⁴⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ié
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɛ²¹³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: e⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /e⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: è
    • Tâi-lô: è
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ex
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /e⁴¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /e²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /e¹¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ì
    • Tâi-lô: ì
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ix
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /i²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: i³ / e³
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ì / ṳ̀
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²¹³/, /ɯ²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ej, 'ejH

Rime
Character	翳	翳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	烏奚切	於計切
Baxter	'ej	'ejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛi/	/ʔɛiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛj/	/ʔɛjH/
Li Rong	/ʔei/	/ʔeiH/
Wang Li	/iei/	/ieiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔiei/	/ʔieiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jai1	jai3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qiː/, /*qiːs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	翳	翳
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15046	15051
Phonetic component	医	医
Rime group	脂	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	鷖	翳
Old Chinese	/*qiː/	/*qiːs/

Definitions

翳

1. (literary) shade; screen
2. nebula
3. (literary) to hide; to conceal
4. (literary) to shade; to screen
5. (literary) feather cover of vehicle
6. (Mainland China Hokkien) gloomy clouds

Compounds

• 屏翳
• 岑翳
• 晻翳 / 暗翳
• 浮雲翳日 / 浮云翳日
• 白翳 (báiyì)
• 眼翳
• 翳桑餓人 / 翳桑饿人
• 翳滅 / 翳灭
• 翳翳
• 翳薈 / 翳荟
• 翳鳥 / 翳鸟
• 蔭翳 / 荫翳
• 蓱翳
• 陰翳 / 阴翳 (yīnyì)
• 障翳
• 雲翳 / 云翳
• 點翳 / 点翳
• 黶翳 / 黡翳

References

• “翳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “翳”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 284.