翕

翕 U+7FD5, 翕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FD5 ← 翔 [U+7FD4] CJK Unified Ideographs 翖 → [U+7FD6]

Translingual

Han character

翕 (Kangxi radical 124, 羽+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 人口尸一一 (ORSMM), four-corner 8012₇, composition ⿱合羽)

Derived characters

• 㒆 噏 嬆 嶖 㩉 㬛 㯓 潝 熻 䁯 蹹 㪧 歙 㽂 闟 𢡁 𣯾 𤛣 𪼜 𧝅 𦅖 𦪙 𫋞 𧬈 𨎰 𩻵 𠟊 𢿴 𣰅 𨝫 𪅲 𩰙 𮁈 𮙑 𮋖

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 956, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28691
• Dae Jaweon: page 1402, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3347, character 20
• Unihan data for U+7FD5

Chinese

trad.		翕
simp. #		翕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 翕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
龕	*kʰuːm
媕	*quːm, *qromʔ, *qɯːm, *qramʔ, *qɯːb
頜	*ɡuːmʔ, *kuːb
答	*tkuːb
畣	*tkuːb
荅	*tkuːb
嗒	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
褡	*tuːb, *toːb
撘	*tuːb
搭	*tuːb, *tʰoːb
榙	*tkuːb, *ɡuːb
佮	*tkʰuːb, *kuːb, *quːb, *quːb
蛤	*kuːb
鴿	*kuːb
合	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
郃	*kuːb, *ɡuːb
匌	*kuːb, *kʰuːb
鉿	*kuːb
閤	*kuːb
鞈	*kuːb, *kruːb
韐	*kuːb, *kruːb
鮯	*kuːb
哈	*ŋɡuːb
姶	*quːb, *quːb
欱	*qʰuːb, *qʰruːb
盒	*ɡuːb
耠	*ɡuːb
詥	*ɡuːb
塔	*tʰuːb
鞳	*tʰoːb
劄	*rtuːb
跲	*kruːb, *kob, *ɡob
袷	*kruːb, *ŋkob
餄	*kruːb
恰	*kʰruːb
帢	*kʰruːb
洽	*ɡruːb
祫	*ɡruːb
珨	*ɡruːb
烚	*ɡruːb
歙	*qʰjob, *qʰrub
湁	*tkʰub
拾	*ɡjub
給	*krub
翕	*qʰrub
噏	*qʰrub
潝	*qʰrub
熻	*qʰrub
嬆	*qʰrub
翖	*qʰrub
闟	*qʰrub

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *qʰrub) : phonetic 合 (OC *kuːb, *ɡuːb) + semantic 羽 (“wings”)

Etymology 1

Compare 蓋 (OC *kaːbs, *kaːb, *ɡaːb, “to cover”) (STEDT).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xī, xì

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ, ㄒㄧˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xie¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hip

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: si
    • Wade–Giles: hsi¹
    • Yale: syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xì
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sì
    • Wade–Giles: hsi⁴
    • Yale: syì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shih
    • Palladius: си (si)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xie¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xie
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕiɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jap¹
    • Yale: yāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hip
    • Tâi-lô: hip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hib
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hip̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: xip

Rime
Character	翕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	緝 (142)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許及切
Baxter	xip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xiep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjip̚/
Li Rong	/xjəp̚/
Wang Li	/xĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hap1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qʰ(r)[ə]p/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰrub/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	翕	翕
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xì	xì
Middle Chinese	‹ xip ›	‹ xip ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰ(r)[ə]p/	/*qʰ(r)[ə]p/
English	united, harmonious	draw in; inhale
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	翕
Reading #	1/1
No.	5004
Phonetic component	合
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	吸
Old Chinese	/*qʰrub/

Definitions

翕

1. friendly; compliant
2. 58th tetragram of the Taixuanjing (𝌿)
3. (Sichuanese) to crack

Compounds

• 卉翕
• 哄哄翕翕
• 翕侯 (xīhóu)
• 翕動 / 翕动 (xīdòng)
• 翕呷
• 翕如
• 翕定
• 翕忽
• 翕然
• 翕習 / 翕习
• 翕翕
• 翕翼
• 翕赩
• 翕赫
• 翕闢 / 翕辟
• 翕響 / 翕响

References

• “翕”, 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–

Etymology 2

trad.		翕
simp. #		翕
alternative forms		攝／摄

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hip

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hip
    • Tâi-lô: hip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hib
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hip̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hip̚³²/

Definitions

翕

1. (Hokkien) uncomfortably stuffy (due to hot weather, lack of air circulation, confined spaces, etc.)
2. (Hokkien) to take a picture
3. (Hokkien) to cover tightly closed lid to prevent leakage of air (especially used in cooking)
4. (Mainland China Hokkien) to bully and oppress; to intimidate; to threaten

Compounds

• 翕像
• 翕影
• 翕死
• 翕汗
• 翕火
• 翕熱 / 翕热
• 翕甌 / 翕瓯
• 翕盅
• 翕相
• 翕相機 / 翕相机
• 翕相館 / 翕相馆
• 翕種 / 翕种
• 翕胸
• 翕芽
• 翕豆菜
• 翕豆豉
• 翕豆酺
• 翕飯 / 翕饭

References

• “(#)”, in 臺灣閩南語按呢寫‎^[2], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2013.

Japanese

Kanji

翕

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こふ (kofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きふ (kifu, historical)}
• Kun: あう (au, 翕う)
• Nanori: さかり (sakari)

Korean

Hanja

翕 • (heup) (hangeul 흡, revised heup, McCune–Reischauer hŭp, Yale hup)

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Vietnamese

Han character

翕: Hán Nôm readings: hấp

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