帷

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帷 U+5E37, 帷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E37
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Translingual

Han character

帷 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 中月人土 (LBOG), four-corner 40214, composition ⿰巾隹)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 333, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8954
  • Dae Jaweon: page 639, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 745, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+5E37

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 帷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 帷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
匯 *ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓 *kʰʷriːl
淮 *ɡʷriːl
睢 *qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉 *sqʷi
趡 *skʰʷilʔ
踓 *skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖 *sqʰʷi
濉 *sqʰʷi
倠 *qʰʷi
婎 *qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維 *ɢʷi
惟 *ɢʷi
唯 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰 *ɢʷi
琟 *ɢʷil
鷕 *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷 *ɢʷril
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 帷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 洧悲切
Baxter hwij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɦˠiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɦʷᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɣiuɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ɦjwi/
Li
Rong 		/ɣjui/
Wang
Li 		/ɣwi/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/wi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wéi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 帷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wéi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ hwij ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷrij/
English curtain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 帷
Reading # 1/1
No. 12861
Phonetic
component 		唯
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		帷
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷril/
Notes 古文從匚韋聲

Definitions

帷

  1. tent
  2. curtain, screen

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

帷

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: い (i)←ゐ (wi, historical)
  • Kan-on: い (i)←ゐ (wi, historical)
  • Kun: とばり (tobari, 帷)

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
帷
い
Hyōgai
on'yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 帷 (MC hwij).

Pronunciation

Noun

帷(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

  1. a curtain or hanging that covers all sides
Derived terms

Affix

帷(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

  1. hanging; curtain
Derived terms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
帷
とばり
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 帷 – see the following entry.
【とばり】
帳, 帷, 幄, 幌: curtain
Alternative spellings
帳, 幄, 幌
(This term, 帷, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

帷 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

帷 (duy)

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