彝

彝 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 2744₉, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)

1. Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
2. tripod, wine vessel
3. rule

• 𬯧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9950
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 962, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5F5D

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *li): phonetic 彑 (OC *krads, “head”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + semantic 糸 (“silk”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”) – a bird or slave with its wings or hands tied, offered for sacrifice with two hands. The bird or slave's head is represented by 彑, the body now by 米 (no connection to “rice”), the string that ties the wings or hands by 糸, and the two hands by 廾. The 彑 component is stated to be a phonetic in Shuowen.

彝

1. ritual vessel in ancestral halls
2. wine vessel
3. rule; convention
4. (～族) Yi, an ethnic group living primarily in the mountainous areas of southwest China

• “彝”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: い (i)
• Kan-on: い (i)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 彝)
• Nanori: つね (tsune)

From Middle Chinese 彝 (MC yij).

• (Tokyo) い [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [i]

彝(い) • (i) 

1. in ancient China, a tripod kettle or other vessel used to make offerings to one's ancestors
2. (by extension) cardinal principle

彝(い) • (I) 

1. Yi (ethnic group)

彝 (eum 이 (i))

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彝: Hán Nôm readings: di

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