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Translingual
Han character
邇 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜一火月 (YMFB), four-corner 31302, composition ⿺辶爾)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39193
- Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3891, character 11
- Unihan data for U+9087
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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嬭
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*rneːlʔ, *niːlʔ
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禰
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*niːlʔ
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镾
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*niːlʔ, *mnel
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薾
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*niːlʔ
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檷
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*niːlʔ
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鑈
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*niːlʔ, *neːb
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瀰
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*niːlʔ, *mnel, *mnelʔ
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獼
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*mnel
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瓕
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*mnel
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彌
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*mnel
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鸍
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*mnel, *hnjel
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擟
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*mnel
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濔
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*mnelʔ
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壐
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*smlelʔ
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璽
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*smlelʔ
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爾
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*njelʔ
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邇
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*njelʔ
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獮
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*smlenʔ
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籋
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*neb, *neːb
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Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“near”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”), Mizo hnai (“near”), Jingpho ni (ni³¹, “near”), Burmese နီး (ni:, “bear near; be close”), 暱 (OC *niɡ, “intimate; close”).
Pronunciation
Note: ru2 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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邇
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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ěr
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Middle Chinese
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‹ nyeX ›
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Old Chinese
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/*nʔ/
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English
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near
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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邇
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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2818
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Phonetic component
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爾
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Rime group
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歌
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Rime subdivision
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2
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Corresponding MC rime
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爾
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Old Chinese
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/*njelʔ/
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Definitions
邇 (literary)
- near; close
- to approach; to come close to
- shallow; easy to understand
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of
近 (“near; close”)
Compounds
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “迩”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.
Japanese
Kanji
邇
(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 迩)
- approach
- near, close
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
邇 • (i) (hangeul 이, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)
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