沴

沴	U+6CB4, 沴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB4

← 河
[U+6CB3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

沵 →
[U+6CB5]

Translingual

Han character

沴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水人竹竹 (EOHH), four-corner 3812₂, composition ⿰氵㐱)

foul and poisonous in confusion
out of harmony

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 10
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17246
Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1589, character 5
Unihan data for U+6CB4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沴
alternative forms		沵𣳅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	nlanʔ, l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	ʔl'anʔ, kljɯnʔ
跈	nlɯːnʔ, l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	rɯn, kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	l'ɯns, kljɯnʔ
畛	kljɯn, kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	kljɯnʔ, klɯnʔ
袗	kljɯnʔ, kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lì
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lì
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴
  - Yale: lì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
  - Palladius: ли (li)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: leoi⁶
  - Yale: leuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/

Middle Chinese: lejH

Rime
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎計切
Baxter	lejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛj^H/
Li Rong	/lei^H/
Wang Li	/liei^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/liei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*rɯːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
No.	17083
Phonetic component	疹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	麗
Old Chinese	/*rɯːls/

Definitions

沴

(literary, of the flow of water) not smooth; obstructed
(literary) foul and poisonous air; miasma
(literary) out of harmony
- 陰陽之氣有沴，其心閒而無事 [MSC, trad.]
  阴阳之气有沴，其心闲而无事 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 莊子·大宗師, translated by James Legge
  yīnyáng zhī qì yǒu 沴, qí xīn xián ér wúshì [Pinyin]
  His breath came and went in gasps: yet he was easy in his mind, and made no trouble of his condition
(literary) disaster caused by such an imbalance

Compounds

歷沴 / 历沴
沴孽
沴氣 / 沴气
災沴 / 灾沴
百沴
眚沴 (shěnglì)

Japanese

Kanji

沴

(Hyōgai kanji)

effluvium; miasma
malaria

Readings

On (unclassified): れい (rei)、らい (rai)、てん (ten)、でん (den)
Kun: もこなう (mokonau)