# 佾

| 佾 | U+4F7E, &#20350; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F7E |
| ← 佽 [U+4F7D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 使 → [U+4F7F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

佾 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 人金月 (OCB), four-corner 2822$_7$, composition ⿰亻䏌)
* a row or file of dancers

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 101, character 3
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 572
* Dae Jaweon: page 213, character 11
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 150, character 6
* Unihan data for U+4F7E

## Chinese

* Dance in China#Ritual dance (English)

### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 佾
* Small seal scripts05916
* References:
* Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:
* Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
* Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
* Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and
* Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
| | Old Chinese |
| 洕 | *lins |
| 佾 | *lɯd |
| 屑 | *slɯːd, *sluːd |
| 榍 | *slɯːd |
| 糏 | *slɯːd |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yì (yi$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jat$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yì
*** Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yì
*** Wade–Giles: i$^4$
*** Yale: yì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
*** Palladius: и (i)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jat$^6$
*** Yale: yaht
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jat$^9$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yed$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐt̚²/
* Middle Chinese: yit
Rime :
| Character | 佾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) |
| Final (韻) | 質 (48) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 夷質切 |
| Baxter | yit |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiɪt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jit̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /jet̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jit̚/ |
| Li Rong | /iĕt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭĕt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯ĕt̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jat$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N.]r[i]t/
    (Zhengzhang): /*lɯd/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 佾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yit › |
| Old Chinese | /*[N.]r[i]t/ |
| English | row of dancers |
| 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 | 佾 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15062 |
| Phonetic component | 佾 |
| Rime group | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 逸 |
| Old Chinese | /*lɯd/ |

### Definitions

佾
* (historical) a row of dancers during a sacrificial rite
    八佾 ― bāyì ― eight rows of eight dancers (mentioned in the Analects)

#### Compounds

* 佾生
* 佾舞 (yìwǔ)
* 佾舞生
* 八佾 (bāyì)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* row or file of dancers

#### Readings

* Go-on: いち (ichi)
* Kan-on: いつ (itsu)
* Kun: やすい (yasui, 佾い)、やすんずる (yasunzuru, 佾んずる)

#### Compounds

* 八(はち)佾(いつ) (hachiitsu): ancient Chinese dance performed by 64 people

#### Usage notes

Used only once in the Nihon Shoki to erroneously spell the 借音 (shakuon) kana ⟨ra⟩:
* 720, Nihon Shoki (page 214)
    [...]　八(やつ)佾(ら)之(の)儛(まひ)　[...] [Man'yōgana]
    [...]　八(やつ)佾(ら)の舞(まひ)　[...] [Modern spelling]

## Korean
### Hanja

佾 • (tteollil heul, chum jul il) (hangeul 떨릴 흘, 춤 줄 일, revised il, McCune–Reischauer il)
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