# 緌

| 緌 | U+7DCC, &#32204; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DCC |
| ← 緋 [U+7DCB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 緍 → [U+7DCD] |

## Translingual
### Han character

緌 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹木女 (VFHDV), four-corner 2294$_4$, composition ⿰糹委)

#### Derived characters

* 𦿿

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 929, character 10
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27605
* Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3415, character 2
* Unihan data for U+7DCC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 矮 | *qraːlʔ |
| 躷 | *qraːlʔ |
| 捼 | *noːl, *nuːl, *njul |
| 倭 | *qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol |
| 涹 | *qoːl |
| 踒 | *qoːl |
| 餧 | *nuːlʔ, *qrols |
| 諉 | *nols, *qrolʔ |
| 痿 | *njol, *qrol |
| 萎 | *qrol, *qrols |
| 逶 | *qrol |
| 覣 | *qrol |
| 蜲 | *qrol, *qrolʔ |
| 委 | *qrol, *qrolʔ |
| 緌 | *njul |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *njul): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 委 (OC *qrol, *qrolʔ).

### Etymology

May be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”); see 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”) for more (STEDT).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ruí (rui$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄟˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jeoi$^4$ / jeoi$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ruí
*** Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ruéi
*** Wade–Giles: jui$^2$
*** Yale: rwéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ruei
*** Palladius: жуй (žuj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʐu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jeoi$^4$ / jeoi$^6$
*** Yale: yèuih / yeuih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: joey$^4$ / joey$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yêu$^4$ / yêu$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɵy̯²¹/, /jɵy̯²²/
* Middle Chinese: nywij
Rime :
| Character | 緌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 儒隹切 |
| Baxter | nywij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ȵiuɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ȵʷi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ȵʑjuɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ȵwi/ |
| Li Rong | /ȵui/ |
| Wang Li | /ȵʑwi/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ȵʑwi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ruí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jeoi$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*nuj/
    (Zhengzhang): /*njul/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 緌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | ruí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nywij › |
| Old Chinese | /*nuj/ |
| English | tassel |
| 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 | 緌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12908 |
| Phonetic component | 委 |
| Rime group | 微 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蕤 |
| Old Chinese | /*njul/ |
| Notes | 疑本妥聲 |

### Definitions

緌
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) tassels hanging from hat
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Gě jù wǔ liǎng, guān ruí shuāng zhǐ. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B03396

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* tassels hanging from hat

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ずい (zui)、に (ni)
* Kun: おいかけ (oikake)、はた (hata)、ひも (himo)、ほおすけ (hōsuke)

## Korean
### Hanja

緌 • (yu) (hangeul 유)
* a hat string (tied under the chin)
* hang down

## Vietnamese
### Han character

緌: Hán Nôm readings: nhuy
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.