縊

See also: 缢

縊	U+7E0A, 縊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7E0A

← 縉
[U+7E09]

CJK Unified Ideographs

縋 →
[U+7E0B]

Translingual

Han character

縊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 女火廿金廿 (VFTCT), four-corner 2891₇, composition ⿰糹益)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 933, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27738
Dae Jaweon: page 1372, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3439, character 8
Unihan data for U+7E0A

Chinese

螠: especially in 縊女 “pupa”
trad.		縊
simp.		缢
alternative forms		螠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (益) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
隘	*qreːɡs
賹	*qreːɡs
搤	qreːɡs, qreːɡ
縊	qleːɡs, qleɡs
螠	*qleɡs
謚	ɢliɡs, qleɡ
諡	*ɢliɡs
蠲	*kʷliːŋ
溢	*liɡ
鎰	*liɡ
齸	lig, qleg
貖	*qreːɡ
益	*qleɡ
嗌	*qleɡ
膉	*qleɡ
鷁	*ŋɡleːɡ
艗	*ŋɡleːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qleːɡs, *qleɡs) : semantic 糸 + phonetic 益 (OC *qleɡ).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan འཁྱིག་ ('khyig, “tie, fasten”), Burmese အစ် (ac, “throttle”) (Hill, 2017).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ai³
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): it

(Meixian, Guangdong): yid⁵
Eastern Min (BUC): ié
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): è

(Teochew, Peng'im): êg⁴
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷iq

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: yì
  - Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: yì
  - Wade–Giles: i⁴
  - Yale: yì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
  - Palladius: и (i)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ai³
  - Yale: ai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ai³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ei³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɐi̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: it
  - Hakka Romanization System: id^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: id⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚²/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yid⁵
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ié
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɛ²¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: è
  - Tâi-lô: è
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ex
  - IPA (Xiamen): /e²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /e⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /e²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /e¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /e²¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: êg⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ek
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ek̚²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁷iq
  - MiniDict: ih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴iq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /iɪʔ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: 'jieH, 'ejH

Rime
Character	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	於賜切	於計切
Baxter	'jieH	'ejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiᴇ^H/	/ʔei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔiɛ^H/	/ʔei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjɛ^H/	/ʔɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔiə̆^H/	/ʔɛj^H/
Li Rong	/ʔie^H/	/ʔei^H/
Wang Li	/ǐe^H/	/iei^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔie̯^H/	/ʔiei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji³	jai³

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤ[i]k-s/, /*q[i]k-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*qleːɡs/, /*qleɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔej^H ›	‹ ʔjie^H ›
Old Chinese	/*qˁ[i]k-s/	/*q[i]k-s/
English	strangle	strangle
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	縊	縊
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	15070	15071
Phonetic component	益	益
Rime group	賜	賜
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	翳	縊
Old Chinese	/*qleːɡs/	/*qleɡs/

Definitions

縊

to hang; to strangle (to death)

Compounds

絞縊／绞缢 (jiǎoyì)
縊女／缢女 (yìnǚ)
縊死／缢死 (yìsǐ)
縊蟶／缢蛏 (yìchēng)
縊頸／缢颈 (yìjǐng)
自縊／自缢 (zìyì)

References

“縊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

縊

(Hyōgai kanji)

strangle

Readings

Go-on: い (i)、あい (ai)
Kan-on: い (i)、えい (ei)
Kun: くびる (kubiru, 縊る)、くびれる (kubireru, 縊れる)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
縊
い Hyōgai
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 縊 (MC 'jieH|'ejH).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [i]

Affix

縊(い) • (i)

hang; strangle

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

縊 • (aek, ui) (hangeul 액, 의, revised aek, ui, McCune–Reischauer aek, ŭi, Yale ayk, uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

縊: Hán Nôm readings: ải

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