義

See also: 义 and 羲
義 U+7FA9, 義
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FA9
← 羨
[U+7FA8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羪 →
[U+7FAA]

Translingual

Han character

義 (radical 123, 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹手戈 (TGHQI), four-corner 80553, composition ⿱𦍌我)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 952, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28504
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1397, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3133, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7FA9

Chinese
trad. 義
simp. 义*
variant forms 羛

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 義
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (我) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莪 *ŋaːl
哦 *ŋaːl
娥 *ŋaːl
峨 *ŋaːl
峩 *ŋaːl
鵝 *ŋaːl
俄 *ŋaːl
蛾 *ŋaːl, *ŋralʔ
睋 *ŋaːl
涐 *ŋaːl
誐 *ŋaːl
硪 *ŋaːl, *ŋaːlʔ
我 *ŋaːlʔ
騀 *ŋaːlʔ
餓 *ŋaːls
義 *ŋrals
儀 *ŋral
轙 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
檥 *ŋral, *ŋralʔ
蟻 *ŋralʔ
艤 *ŋralʔ
礒 *ŋralʔ
羛 *ŋralʔ, *hŋral
議 *ŋrals
犧 *hŋral
曦 *hŋral
羲 *hŋral

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ŋrals) : semantic 羊 (“sheep”) + phonetic 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ).

Pronunciation
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 義
Mandarin Beijing /i⁵¹/
Harbin /i⁵³/
Tianjin /i⁵³/
Jinan /i²¹/
Qingdao /i⁴²/
Zhengzhou /i³¹²/
Xi'an /i⁴⁴/
Xining /ji²¹³/
Yinchuan /i¹³/
Lanzhou /i¹³/
Ürümqi /i²¹³/
Wuhan /i³⁵/
Chengdu /ȵi¹³/
Guiyang /ni²¹³/ 老
/i²¹³/ 新
Kunming /i²¹²/
Nanjing /i⁴⁴/
Hefei /zz̩⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /i⁴⁵/
Pingyao /ȵi³⁵/
Hohhot /i⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ȵi²³/
Suzhou /ɦi³¹/
Hangzhou /ȵi¹³/
Wenzhou /ȵi²²/
Hui Shexian /ni²²/
Tunxi /ȵi¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /ȵi⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /ȵi⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /ȵi²¹/
Hakka Meixian /ŋi⁵³/
Taoyuan /ŋi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /ji²²/
Nanning /ji²²/
Hong Kong /ji²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /gi²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ŋiɛ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ŋi⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ŋĩ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ŋi³⁵/
/ŋi³³/
Rime
Character 義
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 宜寄切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ŋˠiᴇH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ŋᵚiɛH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ŋiɛH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ŋjiə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ŋjeH/
Wang
Li		 /ŋǐeH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ŋie̯H/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yì
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 義
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ngjeH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋ(r)aj-s/
English duty; justice

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 義
Reading # 1/1
No. 13045
Phonetic
component		 我
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 議
Old
Chinese		 /*ŋrals/

Definitions

義

  1. right conduct; righteousness; justice; morality
  2. meaning; implication
  3. rule; regulation
  4. charity; free
  5. artificial;
  6. by (moral) principle; in (righteous) name.
  7. (Taiwan) Short for 義大利／义大利 (Yìdàlì, “Italy”).
  8. A surname​.

Compounds
Derived terms from 義

Japanese

Kanji
義

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

義 (hiragana ぎ, rōmaji gi)

  1. justice; a situation which has a right and proper reason
  2. a meaning
  3. a relative who has no blood relation
  4. an object which can be used properly instead of a right one
    • 義 (ぎ)眼 (がん) (gigan)
    • 義 (ぎ)手 (しゅ) (gishu)
    • 義足 (ぎそく) (gisoku)
    • 義体 (ぎたい) (gitai)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

義 (nghĩa, ngãi)

  1. meaning
  2. morality; duty
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