易

See also: 昜
易 U+6613, 易
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6613
← 昒
[U+6612] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昔 →
[U+6614]

Translingual

Han character

易 (radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日心竹竹 (APHH), four-corner 60227, composition ⿱日勿)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 492, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13814
  • Dae Jaweon: page 854, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1494, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6613

Chinese

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 易
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (易) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
賜 *sleːɡs
儩 *sleɡs
舓 *ɦljeʔ
易 *leːɡs, *leɡ
敡 *leɡs
鬄 *sljeɡ
睗 *hljeɡ
晹 *hljeɡ
痬 *leɡ
蜴 *leɡ
埸 *leɡ
逷 *l̥ʰeːɡ
剔 *l̥ʰeːɡ
踢 *tʰeːɡ
惕 *l̥ʰeːɡ
錫 *sleːɡ
裼 *sleːɡ
緆 *sleːɡ

Oracle bone and bronze inscriptions: original form of 賜 (OC *sleːɡs, “to confer, to bestow”); specialised from 益 (OC *qleɡ, “to benefit”).

Shuowen: pictogram (象形) , original form of 蜴 (OC *leɡ, “lizard”).

Etymology 1
simp. and trad.
 易

From 移 (OC *lal, “to change; to alter”) + k-extension (Schuessler, 2007).

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Pronunciation
Note:
  • e̍k/ia̍k - literary;
  • ia̍h - colloquial (only as a surname or when referring to 易經).
Note:
  • êg8 - literary;
  • iah8 - colloquial (only as a surname or when referring to 易經).
Rime
Character 易
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 昔 (123)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 羊益切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiajk̚/
Li
Rong		 /iɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /jĭɛk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 易
Reading # 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lek/
English change; exchange

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 易
Reading # 2/2
No. 15034
Phonetic
component		 易
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 繹
Old
Chinese		 /*leɡ/
Notes 甲文象斟酒，表易器而賜

Definitions

易

  1. to exchange; to interchange
  2. to change; to alter; to modify
  3. Short for 易經／易经 (Yìjīng, “I Ching”).
  4. A surname​.

Etymology 2
simp. and trad.
 易

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwa(ː)j (“easy”). Cognate with Burmese လွယ် (lwai, “easy”).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 易
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以豉切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /jɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ieH/
Wang
Li		 /jǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 易
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*lek-s/
English easy

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 易
Reading # 1/2
No. 15029
Phonetic
component		 易
Rime
group		 賜
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 易
Old
Chinese		 /*leːɡs/

Definitions

易

  1. easy; simple; not difficult
  2. gentle; kind
  3. effortless; prone to
  4. easily; effortlessly

Etymology 3
simp. and trad.
 易
variant forms 噲／哙

Pronunciation

Definitions

易

  1. (Min) easy; not difficult

Compounds
Derived terms from 易

Japanese

Kanji
易

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
易
えき
Grade: 5
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 易 (MC jiᴇk̚).

The kan'on, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

易 (hiragana えき, rōmaji eki)

  1. divination; fortune-telling

Synonyms

Proper noun

易 (hiragana えき, rōmaji Eki)

  1. Short for 易経 (Ekikyō, “I Ching (Chinese classic text)”).

Affix

易 (hiragana えき, rōmaji eki)

  1. exchange
  2. divination; fortune-telling

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
易
い
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 易 (MC jiᴇH).

Pronunciation

Noun

易 (hiragana い, rōmaji i)

  1. something easy to do; easiness

Affix

易 (hiragana い, rōmaji i)

  1. easy; simple

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

易 • (yeok, i) (hangeul 역, 이, revised yeok, i, McCune–Reischauer yŏk, i, Yale yek, i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

易 (dịch, dể, dễ, di, diệc, dẻ, dẹ, dị, dịu, rẻ, rể)

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