邑

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See also: 阝, 𢀳, and 巴
邑 U+9091, 邑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9091
← 邐
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邒 →
⾢ U+2FA2, ⾢
KANGXI RADICAL CITY
← ⾡
 		Kangxi Radicals ⾣ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

  • 阝 (when used as a right radical component)

Han character

邑 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口日山 (RAU) or 難口日山 (XRAU), four-corner 60717, composition ⿱口巴)

  1. Kangxi radical #163, ⾢.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №229

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 42
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39269
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3753, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9091

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 邑
alternative forms 阝 radical

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邑
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (邑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
唈 *qɯːb, *qrɯb
浥 *qrɯːb, *qab, *qrɯb
裛 *qrab, *qab, *qrɯb
俋 *r'ɯb
挹 *qɯb
邑 *qrɯb
悒 *qrɯb

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 囗 (“enclosure; city wall”) + 卪 (“kneeling person”).

Etymology

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possible etymologies:

Pronunciation

Note: ig4 - Chenghai.
Rime
Character 邑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 侵 (142)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於汲切
Baxter 'ip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠiɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚip̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔjip̚/
Li
Rong 		/ʔjəp̚/
Wang
Li 		/ĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jap1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 邑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yì
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔip ›
Old
Chinese 		/*q(r)p/
English city, town

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 邑
Reading # 1/1
No. 15021
Phonetic
component 		邑
Rime
group 		緝
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		邑
Old
Chinese 		/*qrɯb/

Definitions

邑

  1. state; country; nation
  2. capital; capital city
  3. city; town
  4. area; district
  5. Original form of 悒 (yì, “to worry; anxious”).

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

邑

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. capital; capital city
  2. a type of administrative division

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
邑
ゆう
Jinmeiyō
kan’on

Noun

邑(ゆう) • (yū) ←いふ (ifu)?

  1. eup (an administrative division in Korea like a town)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
邑
おおざと
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
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Noun

邑(おおざと) • (ōzato) ←おほざと (ofozato)?

  1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

Korean

Hanja

邑 (eumhun 고을 읍 (go'eul eup))

  1. (geography) Hanja form? of 읍 (“Town or eup, an administrative division larger and more populous than a "리" (village) but smaller and less populous than a "군" (county) or "시" (city)”).

Vietnamese

Han character

邑: Hán Nôm readings: ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp

  1. chữ Hán form of ấp (“hamlet”).
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