疫

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疫 U+75AB, 疫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-75AB
← 疪
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 疬 →

Translingual

Han character

疫 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 大竹弓水 (KHNE), four-corner 00147, composition ⿸疒殳)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 770, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22069
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1180, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2663, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+75AB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 疫
alternative forms 𤶣
𤴥

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 疫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (役) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
椺 *ɦmluːʔ, *ɢʷeːɡs, *ɢeːɡ
役 *ɢʷeɡ
疫 *ɢʷeɡ
垼 *ɢʷeɡ
炈 *ɢʷeɡ
鈠 *ɢʷeɡ
豛 *ɢʷeɡ
坄 *doː, *leɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢʷeɡ): semantic 疒 (“sickness”) + abbreviated phonetic 役 (OC *ɢʷeɡ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • ia̍h - vernacular;
  • e̍k/ia̍k - literary.
Note: mog8 - vernacular (俗).
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 疫
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i⁴²/
Xi'an /i²⁴/
Xining /ji²⁴/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i⁵³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /y²¹³/
Chengdu /yo³¹/
Guiyang /iu²¹/
Kunming /i³¹/
Nanjing /ʐuʔ⁵/
Hefei /yəʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /iəʔ²/
Pingyao /yʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ɦioʔ¹/
/ɦyɪʔ¹/
Suzhou /ɦyəʔ³/
Hangzhou /ɦioʔ²/
Wenzhou /jy²¹³/
Hui Shexian /yʔ²¹/
Tunxi /y⁵/
Xiang Changsha /y²⁴/
Xiangtan /y²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /it̚⁵/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /jek̚²/
Nanning /jek̚²²/
Hong Kong /jik̚²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ik̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /iʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /i²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /mok̚⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /muak̚³/
Rime
Character 疫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 昔 (124)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 營隻切
Baxter ywek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jwiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jʷiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/iuæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jwiajk̚/
Li
Rong 		/iuɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/jĭwɛk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯wɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wik6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 疫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ywek ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷek/
English epidemic

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 疫
Reading # 1/1
No. 15007
Phonetic
component 		役
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		役
Old
Chinese 		/*ɢʷeɡ/

Definitions

疫

  1. epidemic; plague; pestilence

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

疫

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. epidemic

Readings

  • Go-on: やく (yaku, Jōyō †)
  • Kan-on: えき (eki, Jōyō)
  • Kun: え (e, 疫)、えやみ (eyami, 疫)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

疫 • (yeok) (hangeul 역, revised yeok, McCune–Reischauer yŏk, Yale yek)

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Vietnamese

Han character

疫: Hán Nôm readings: dịch

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