# 彝

| 彝 | U+5F5D, &#24413; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F5D |
| ← 彜 [U+5F5C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 彞 → [U+5F5E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

彝 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 2744$_9$, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)
* Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
* tripod, wine vessel
* rule

#### Derived characters

* 𬯧

#### References

* 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

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 彝 :
| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yí (yi$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ji$^4$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): yì
    (Meixian, Guangdong): yi$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): ì
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): î
    (Teochew, Peng'im): i$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yí
*** Zhuyin: ㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yí
*** Wade–Giles: i$^2$
*** Yale: yí
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yi
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ji$^4$
*** Yale: yìh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ji$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jiː²¹/
* Hakka
** (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yì
*** Hakka Romanization System: i$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /i¹¹/
** (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yì
*** Hakka Romanization System: (r)i$^ˇ$
*** Hagfa Pinyim: yi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /(j)i¹¹/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: yi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA: /i¹¹/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: ì
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: î
*** Tâi-lô: î
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ii
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /i¹³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /i²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: i$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: î
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: yij
Rime :
| Character | 彝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 以脂切 |
| Baxter | yij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ji/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /jɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ji/ |
| Li Rong | /i/ |
| Wang Li | /ji/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /i/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ji$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l][ə]j/
    (Zhengzhang): /*li/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 彝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yí |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yij › |
| Old Chinese | /*[l][ə]j/ |
| English | ritual vase |
| 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 | 彝 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14908 |
| Phonetic component | 彝 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 姨 |
| Old Chinese | /*li/ |

### Definitions

彝
* ritual vessel in ancestral halls
* wine vessel
* rule; convention
* (～族) Yi, an ethnic group living primarily in the mountainous areas of southwest China

#### Compounds

* 伯彞 / 伯彝
* 功銘鼎彞 / 功铭鼎彝
* 匪彞 / 匪彝
* 宗彞 / 宗彝
* 彞倫 / 彝伦
* 彞倫攸斁 / 彝伦攸𭣧
* 彞劇 / 彝剧
* 彞器 / 彝器 (yíqì)
* 彞憲 / 彝宪
* 彞文 / 彝文
* 彞族 / 彝族 (Yízú)
* 彞訓 / 彝训
* 彞語 / 彝语 (Yíyǔ)
* 怒彞 / 怒彝
* 斝彞 / 斝彝
* 方彞 / 方彝
* 朱彞尊 / 朱彝尊
* 民彞 / 民彝
* 秉彞 / 秉彝
* 蜼彞 / 蜼彝
* 鼎彞 / 鼎彝

### References

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

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

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

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 彝
* い Hyōgai
* on'yomi
From Middle Chinese 彝 (MC yij).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) い [íꜜ] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [i]

### Noun

彝(い) • (i)
* in ancient China, a tripod kettle or other vessel used to make offerings to one's ancestors
* (by extension) cardinal principle

### Proper noun

彝(い) • (I)
* Yi (ethnic group)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

彝 (eum 이 (i))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

彝: Hán Nôm readings: di
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#### References

* Nom Foundation