沴

沴	U+6CB4, 沴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CB4

← 河
[U+6CB3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

沵 →
[U+6CB5]

Translingual

Han character

沴 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水人竹竹 (EOHH), four-corner 3812₂, composition ⿰氵㐱)

foul and poisonous in confusion
out of harmony

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 613, character 10

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17246

Dae Jaweon: page 1007, character 1

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1589, character 5

Unihan data for U+6CB4

Chinese

simp. and trad.		沴
alternative forms		沵𣳅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
沴	*rɯːls
趁	nlanʔ, l̥ʰɯns, *l'ɯn
紾	ʔl'anʔ, kljɯnʔ
跈	nlɯːnʔ, l'ɯːnʔ
殄	*l'ɯːnʔ
抮	*hlɯːnʔ
駗	rɯn, kljɯnʔ
珍	*ʔl'ɯn
診	l'ɯns, kljɯnʔ
畛	kljɯn, kljɯnʔ
疹	*kljɯnʔ
軫	*kljɯnʔ
胗	kljɯnʔ, klɯnʔ
袗	kljɯnʔ, kljɯns
眕	*kljɯnʔ
飻	*l̥ʰɯːd
餮	*r̥ʰɯːd

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lì (li⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lì
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lì
  - Wade–Giles: li⁴
  - Yale: lì
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lih
  - Palladius: ли (li)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /li⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: leoi⁶
  - Yale: leuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/

Middle Chinese: lejH

Rime
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	郎計切
Baxter	lejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lei^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lei^H/
Shao Rongfen	/lɛi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɛj^H/
Li Rong	/lei^H/
Wang Li	/liei^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/liei^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lai⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*rɯːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	沴
Reading #	1/1
No.	17083
Phonetic component	疹
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	麗
Old Chinese	/*rɯːls/

Definitions

沴

(literary, of the flow of water) not smooth; obstructed
(literary) foul and poisonous air; miasma
(literary) out of harmony
- 陰陽之氣有沴，其心閒而無事 [MSC, trad.]
  阴阳之气有沴，其心闲而无事 [MSC, simp.]
  From: 莊子·大宗師, translated by James Legge
  yīnyáng zhī qì yǒu 沴, qí xīn xián ér wúshì [Pinyin]
  His breath came and went in gasps: yet he was easy in his mind, and made no trouble of his condition
(literary) disaster caused by such an imbalance

Compounds

歷沴／历沴
沴孽
沴氣／沴气
災沴／灾沴
百沴
眚沴 (shěnglì)

Japanese

Kanji

沴

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

effluvium; miasma
malaria

Readings

On (unclassified): れい (rei); らい (rai); てん (ten); でん (den)

Kun: もこなう (mokonau)

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