擬

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See also: 儗 and 拟
擬 U+64EC, 擬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-64EC
← 擫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 擭 →

Translingual

Han character

擬 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 手心大人 (QPKO), four-corner 57081, composition ⿰扌疑)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 460, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12870
  • Dae Jaweon: page 809, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1975, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+64EC

Chinese

trad. 擬
simp. 拟
alternative forms 儗／拟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (疑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礙 *ŋɯːs
儗 *ŋɯːs, *hŋɯːs, *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯs
懝 *ŋɯːs, *ŋɯɡ
譺 *ŋrɯːs, *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯs
癡 *ŋ̊ʰl'ɯ
疑 *ŋɯ
嶷 *ŋɯ, *ŋɯɡ
觺 *ŋɯ
擬 *ŋɯʔ
薿 *ŋɯʔ, *ŋɯɡ
凝 *ŋrɯŋ, *ŋrɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋɯʔ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 疑 (OC *ŋɯ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 擬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 魚紀切
Baxter ngiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ŋɨX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ŋɨX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ŋieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ŋɨX/
Li
Rong 		/ŋiəX/
Wang
Li 		/ŋĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ŋiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ji5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 擬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ngiX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(r)əʔ/ (< uvular)
English estimate, calculate

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 擬
Reading # 1/1
No. 14897
Phonetic
component 		疑
Rime
group 		之
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		擬
Old
Chinese 		/*ŋɯʔ/

Definitions

擬

  1. to compare
  2. to imitate; to copy; to emulate; to mimic
  3. to plan; to propose
  4. to draft; to devise; to draw up
  5. to presuppose; to hypothesise; to assert

Synonyms

  • (to compare):
  • (to imitate):
  • (to plan):
  • (to draft):
  • (to presuppose):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

擬

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. mimic, imitate
  2. guess, suspect
  3. pseudo-, mock-

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 擬 (MC ngiX).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

擬 (eumhun 비길 의 (bigil ui))

  1. hanja form? of 의 (“to compare”)
  2. hanja form? of 의 (“to imitate; to emulate”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

擬: Hán Nôm readings: nghĩ, nghỉ

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