醫

See also: 医
醫 U+91AB, 醫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91AB
← 醪
[U+91AA] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 醬 →
[U+91AC]

Translingual
Japanese 医
Simplified 医
Traditional 醫

Han character

醫 (radical 164, 酉+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 尸水一金田 (SEMCW), four-corner 77601, composition ⿱殹酉)

Derived characters
  • 鿀, 𡄵, 𧕪, 𧮒

References
  • KangXi: page 1287, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40006
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1787, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3595, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+91AB

Chinese
trad. 醫
simp. 医*

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 醫
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (医) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鷖 *qiː
翳 *qiː, *qiːs
嫛 *qiː
黳 *qiː
繄 *qiː, *qiːs
医 *qiːs
嫕 *qiːs
蘙 *qiːs
瞖 *qiːs
殹 *qiːs
贀 *ɢʷis
醫 *qɯ
毉 *qɯ
蠮 *qiːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qɯ) : phonetic 殹 (OC *qiːs) + semantic 酉 (“liquor”).

Alternatively, as an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 殹 (“to groan”) + 酉 (“liquor”) – using liquor to treat a groaning patient.

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs Old Chinese *ʔə and suggests it is cognate with Proto-Hlai *ja¹ (“medicine”), Proto-Kam-Sui *gja² (“medicine; to cure”), Proto-Tai *ʔɨaᴬ¹ (“medicine”).

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 醫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 之 (19)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於其切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔɨ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔɨ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔie/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ʔiə/
Wang
Li		 /ĭə/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yī
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 醫
Reading # 1/1
No. 15058
Phonetic
component		 医
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 醫
Old
Chinese		 /*qɯ/

Definitions

醫

  1. medicinal; medicine
  2. doctor
  3. to cure; to treat

Compounds
Derived terms from 醫

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (醫):

Japanese

Shinjitai

 医

Kyūjitai

 醫

Kanji
醫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 医)

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Readings
  • Go-on: い (i)
  • Kan-on: い (i)
  • Kun: いやす (iyasu, 醫やす); くすし (kusushi, 醫)

Korean

Hanja

醫 • (ui) (hangeul 의, McCune–Reischauer ŭi, Yale uy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

醫 (y)

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Compounds
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