倈

倈 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 人木人人 (ODOO), composition ⿰亻來)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 107, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 755
• Dae Jaweon: page 227, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 172, character 2
• Unihan data for U+5008

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *rɯ): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ).

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倈

1. (historical, in Yuan dynasty) errand boy, lackey; (by extension, derogatory) jerk, tool
2. (opera, in Chinese opera 雜劇／杂剧 (zájù)) the role of a child or an errand boy
3. (opera, in Chinese opera 雜劇／杂剧 (zájù)) Used as a filler word or sentence-ending particle.
4. used in 咨牙倈嘴／咨牙俫嘴 and 打打倈倈／打打俫俫

Possibly from 兒 (OC *ŋje, “son”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, Sagart (2002) treats it as a semantic broadening of 孻／𡥧 (“youngest son”) in a language ancestral to Hakka and Gan.

倈

1. (Hakka, dialectal Gan) son

• 羅竹風 , editor (1986–1994), “倈”, in 漢語大詞典 (in Chinese), 1st edition, Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, →ISBN
• “倈”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: らい (rai)