咿

咿	U+54BF, 咿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54BF

← 咾
[U+54BE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

哀 →
[U+54C0]

Translingual

Han character

咿 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口人尸大 (ROSK), four-corner 6700₀, composition ⿰口伊)

Derived characters

𮡝

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 188, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3579
Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 618, character 7
Unihan data for U+54BF

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尹) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
芛	ɢʷelʔ, ɢʷid
伊	*qlil
咿	*qlil
蛜	*qlil
笋	*sɢʷinʔ
尹	*ɢʷlinʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qlil): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 伊 (OC *qlil).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咿
alternative forms		吚

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yī (yi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹
Eastern Min (BUC): ĭ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yī
  - Zhuyin: ㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yi
  - Wade–Giles: i¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ji¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: 'jij

Rime
Character	咿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	於脂切
Baxter	'jij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔi/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔi/
Li Rong	/ʔi/
Wang Li	/i/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji¹

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ij/

(Zhengzhang): /*qlil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	咿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjij ›
Old Chinese	/*[ʔ]ij/
English	forced laugh
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] 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	咿
Reading #	1/1
No.	15297
Phonetic component	尹
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	伊
Old Chinese	/*qlil/
Notes	見楚辭卜居

Definitions

咿

Used in onomatopoeic words.
(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to moan in pain or grief

Compounds

咿呦
咿咿
咿咿啞啞 / 咿咿哑哑
咿唔 (yīwú)
咿哩呱喇
咿啞 / 咿哑
咿喔
咿嚘
咿軋 / 咿轧
喔咿
喔咿嚅唲
噢咿
嚘咿

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		咿

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): ji¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ji¹
  - Yale: yī
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ji¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiː⁵⁵/

Definitions

咿

(Cantonese) alternative form of 依 (“this; these”)

Japanese

Kanji

咿

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: い (i)
Kan-on: い (i)
Kun: つくりわらい (tsukuriwarai, 咿い)

Korean

Hanja

咿 • (i) (hangeul 이, revised i, McCune–Reischauer i)

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