彝

彝 (radical 58, 彐+15, 18 strokes, cangjie input 女一火火廿 (VMFFT), four-corner 2744₉, composition ⿳彑⿰米糸廾)

1. Yi people (an ethnic group of China)
2. tripod, wine vessel
3. rule

• KangXi: page 362, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9950
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 962, character 18
• Unihan data for U+5F5D

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)  and phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *li) : phonetic 彑 (OC *krads, “head”) + semantic 米 (“rice”) + semantic 糸 (“silk”) + semantic 廾 (“two hands”)- a sacrificial bird with its wings tied is held with two hands, the head of which is represented by '彑', the body of which is now represented by '米' (no connection to the meaning of '米'), the string which ties the wing represented by '糸' and the hands represented by '廾'. Or instead of a bird, a slave. The '彑' component was mentioned as a phonetic in Shuowen.

彝

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(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

From Middle Chinese 彝.

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) い​ [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [i]

彝 (hiragana い, rōmaji i)

1. in ancient China, a tripod kettle or other vessel used to make offerings to one's ancestors
2. (by extension) cardinal principle

彝 (hiragana い, rōmaji I)

1. Yi (ethnic group)

彝 (eum 이 (i))

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彝: Hán Nôm readings: di

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