# 咿

| 咿 | U+54BF, &#21695; 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 6700$_0$, 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

| | 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
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yī (yi$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ji$^1$
* Eastern Min (BUC): ĭ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yī
*** Zhuyin: ㄧ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yi
*** Wade–Giles: i$^1$
*** Yale: yī
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: i
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ji$^1$
*** Yale: yī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ji$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiː⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ĭ
*** Sinological IPA : /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 | ji$^1$ |
* 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
#### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): ji$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ji$^1$
*** Yale: yī
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ji$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yi$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiː⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

咿
* (Cantonese) Alternative form of 依 (“this; these”)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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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