# 羲

| 羲 | U+7FB2, &#32690; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FB2 |
| ← 羱 [U+7FB1] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 羳 → [U+7FB3] |

## Translingual
### Han character

羲 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹木尸 (TGHDS), four-corner 8025$_3$, composition ⿱𦍌⿹⿰禾戈丂)
* breath, vapor

#### Derived characters

* 曦, 㰕, 犧

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 953, character 40
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28552
* Dae Jaweon: page 1398, character 28
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3137, character 13
* Unihan data for U+7FB2

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羲 :
| Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | Old Chinese |
| 莪 | *ŋaːl |
| 哦 | *ŋaːl |
| 娥 | *ŋaːl |
| 峨 | *ŋaːl |
| 峩 | *ŋaːl |
| 鵝 | *ŋaːl |
| 俄 | *ŋaːl |
| 蛾 | *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ |
| 睋 | *ŋaːl |
| 涐 | *ŋaːl |
| 誐 | *ŋaːl |
| 硪 | *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ |
| 我 | *ŋaːlʔ |
| 騀 | *ŋaːlʔ |
| 餓 | *ŋaːls |
| 義 | *ŋrals |
| 儀 | *ŋral |
| 轙 | *ŋral, *ŋralʔ |
| 檥 | *ŋral, *ŋralʔ |
| 蟻 | *ŋralʔ |
| 艤 | *ŋralʔ |
| 礒 | *ŋralʔ |
| 羛 | *ŋralʔ, *hŋral |
| 議 | *ŋrals |
| 犧 | *hŋral |
| 曦 | *hŋral |
| 羲 | *hŋral |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *hŋral): semantic 兮 + phonetic 義 (OC *ŋrals).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): xī (xi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): hei$^1$
* Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): hi$^1$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hi$^1$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hi$^1$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^1$shi
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: xī
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: si
*** Wade–Giles: hsi$^1$
*** Yale: syī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
*** Palladius: си (si)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: hei$^1$
*** Yale: hēi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: hei$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: héi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hei̯⁵⁵/
* Hakka
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: hi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA: /hi⁴⁴/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /hi⁵³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hi
*** Tâi-lô: hi
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hy
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hi³³/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Taipei): /hi⁴⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /hi⁴⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hi$^1$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hi
*** Sinological IPA : /hi³³/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^1$shi
*** MiniDict: shi$^平$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^1$xi
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕi⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: xje
Rime :
| Character | 羲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 曉 (32) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (13) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 許羈切 |
| Baxter | xje |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /hˠiᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /hᵚiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /xiɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /hjiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /xje/ |
| Wang Li | /xǐe/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /xie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xī |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | hei$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋ̊(r)aj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*hŋral/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 羲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xī |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ xje › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋ̊(r)aj/ |
| English | (proper name) |
| 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 | 羲 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13059 |
| Phonetic component | 我 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 犧 |
| Old Chinese | /*hŋral/ |

### Definitions

羲
* Used in personal names.
* Short for 伏羲 (Fúxī).
* Short for 羲和 (xīhé).
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) breath; vapor; gas
* Alternative form of 曦 (xī)
* Short for 王羲之 (Wáng Xīzhī).
* a surname

#### Usage notes

* The 丂 (kǎo) component on the lower left side of the character is often mistakenly written as 乃 (nǎi). Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) specifically proscribes the substitution of 丂 with 乃.

### Compounds

* 伏羲 (Fúxī)
* 伏羲氏
* 傾羲 / 倾羲
* 宓羲 (Fúxī)
* 庖羲 (Páoxī)
* 晨羲 (chénxī)
* 朱羲 (zhūxī)
* 皇羲
* 羲和
* 羲和馭日 / 羲和驭日
* 羲娥
* 羲皇
* 羲皇上人
* 羲經 / 羲经
* 赫羲

### References

* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “羲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* Used in personal names.

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ぎ (gi)、き (ki)
* Kun: いき (iki)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

羲: Hán Nôm readings: hi
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