龠

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龠 U+9FA0, 龠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9FA0
← 龟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 龡 →
⿕ U+2FD5, ⿕
KANGXI RADICAL FLUTE
← ⿔
 		Kangxi Radicals ⿰ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

龠 (Kangxi radical 214, 龠+0, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人一口月 (OMRB), four-corner 80227, composition ⿳亼𠱠𠕁)

  1. Kangxi radical #214, ⿕.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №43

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1538, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48882
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2080, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4807, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9FA0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 龠
alternative forms 𠎤
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Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 龠
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 (龠) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
讑 *lowɢs
籲 *los
爚 *hljowɢ, *lowɢ
禴 *lowɢ
蘥 *lowɢ
鑰 *lowɢ
瀹 *lowɢ
龠 *lowɢ
籥 *lowɢ
鸙 *lowɢ

Pictogram (象形) – a bamboo Pan flute in which two mouths (吅) perhaps indicate the round top of the bamboo pipes. In the bronze inscriptions, 亼 (a flipped 口) was added on top to show a mouth playing the instrument.

Shuowen interprets it as an ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 品 + 侖, however his analysis does not match the original appearence. The bottom component is identical but unrelated to 冊 since it originally represents bamboo slips. The whole character is similar but unrelated to 侖.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 龠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 藥 (107)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以灼切
Baxter yak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨɐk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiɐk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/iɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/jɨak̚/
Li
Rong 		/iak̚/
Wang
Li 		/jĭak̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/i̯ak̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yuè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		joek6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 龠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yuè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*lewk/
English flute; key; tube

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 龠
Reading # 1/1
No. 16350
Phonetic
component 		龠
Rime
group 		藥
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		藥
Old
Chinese 		/*lowɢ/

Definitions

龠

  1. yue (a Chinese musical instrument consisting of a bamboo tube that has three or other numbers of holes)
  2. (historical) yue (an ancient Chinese unit of volume notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds)

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji

龠

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. flute

Readings

  • Go-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kan-on: やく (yaku)
  • Kun: ふえ (fue, 龠)

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

龠 • (yak) (hangeul 약, revised yak, McCune–Reischauer yak, Yale yak)

  1. flute

Vietnamese

Han character

龠: Hán Nôm readings: dược, thược

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References

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