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U+9087, 邇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9087

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Japanese
Simplified
Traditional

Han character

(Kangxi radical 162, +14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜一火月 (YMFB), four-corner 31302, composition )

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

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

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), (OC *niɡ, “intimate; close”).

Pronunciation


Note: ru2 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (38)
Final () (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter nyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ȵieX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑǐeX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ěr
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ji5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ěr
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyeX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nʔ/
English near

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 2818
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njelʔ/

Definitions

(literary)

  1. near; close
  2. to approach; to come close to
  3. shallow; easy to understand

Synonyms

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 61.

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

Kyūjitai

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanjikyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form )

  1. approach
  2. near, close

Readings

  • Go-on: (ni)
  • Kan-on: (ji)
  • Kun: ちかい (chikai, 邇い)
  • Nanori: ちか (chika)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(i) (hangeul , McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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