井
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Translingual
Han character
井 (radical 7, 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT), four-corner 55000, composition ⿻一廾)
Derived characters
Descendants
- ヰ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)
References
- KangXi: page 86, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 258
- Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 1
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 10, character 4
- Unihan data for U+4E95
Chinese
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井 | |
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variant forms | 丼 |
Glyph origin
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References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Characters in the same phonetic series (井) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
硎 | *kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ |
耕 | *kreːŋ |
荊 | *keŋ |
井 | *skeŋʔ |
丼 | *kl'oːmʔ, *skeŋʔ |
妌 | *sɡeŋʔ |
穽 | *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs |
阱 | *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs |
汫 | *sɡeːŋʔ |
刑 | *ɡeːŋ |
形 | *ɡeːŋ |
邢 | *ɡeːŋ |
鉶 | *ɡeːŋ |
型 | *ɡeːŋ |
侀 | *ɡeːŋ |
Pictogram (象形) – a square well, with supports on four sides.
Some forms have a stone inside the well, as in 丼.
Pronunciation
Definitions
井
Compounds
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Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 井 – see 阱 (“pitfall, trap”). (This character, 井, is the second-round simplified form of 阱.) |
Notes:
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Japanese

Readings
- Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō, uncommon)←しやう (syau, historical)
- Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
- Kun: い (i, 井, Jōyō)←ゐ (wi, historical); いど (ido, 井)←ゐど (wido, historical)
Compounds
Derived terms
- 井の中の蛙大海を知らず (i no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu): metaphor of a narrow world view based on limited experience (literally, "a frog in a well does not know the great ocean")
Vietnamese
Han character
井 (tỉnh)
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