遹

遹 U+9079, 遹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9079 ← 選 [U+9078] CJK Unified Ideographs 遺 → [U+907A]

Translingual

Han character

遹 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+12, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜弓竹月 (YNHB), four-corner 3730₂, composition ⿺辶矞)

1. avoid
2. follow

Derived characters

• 𪈄

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1265, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39129
• Dae Jaweon: page 1761, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3887, character 3
• Unihan data for U+9079

Chinese

trad.		遹
simp. #		遹

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 遹
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
瞲	*qʰʷilʔ, *qʰʷids, *qʰʷiːd
璚	*ɡʷeŋ
劀	*kʷriːd, *kʷreːd
鱊	*kʷriːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
譎	*kʷiːd
潏	*kʷiːd, *ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
鐍	*kʷiːd
憰	*kʷiːd
噊	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
驈	*ɢʷjid, *ɢʷid
橘	*kʷid
繘	*kʷid, *ɢʷid
獝	*qʰʷid
燏	*ɢʷid
遹	*ɢʷid
鷸	*ɢʷid
矞	*ɢʷid
霱	*ɢʷid

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yù (yu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄩˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wat⁶, jyut⁶, leot⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yù
    • Zhuyin: ㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yù
    • Wade–Giles: yü⁴
    • Yale: yù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuh
    • Palladius: юй (juj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /y⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wat⁶, jyut⁶, leot⁶
    • Yale: waht, yuht, leuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wat⁹, jyt⁹, loet⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: wed⁶, yud⁶, lêd⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐt̚²/, /jyːt̚²/, /lɵt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: ywit

Rime
Character	遹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	餘律切
Baxter	ywit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/juet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jwit̚/
Li Rong	/iuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/jĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遹
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yù
Middle Chinese	‹ ywit ›
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷi[t]/
English	go awry, perverse
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	遹
Reading #	1/1
No.	16019
Phonetic component	矞
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	聿
Old Chinese	/*ɢʷid/

Definitions

遹

1. (obsolete) to go awry
2. (obsolete) perverse
3. (archaic) to follow; to comply with; to adhere to
4. (Classical) Meaningless sentence-initial particle.
5. a surname

Compounds

• 遹皇
• 遹追

 

Japanese

Kanji

遹

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. comply with, obey
2. shun, avoid

Readings

• Go-on: いち (ichi)
• Kan-on: いつ (itsu)
• Kun: かたよる (katayoru, 遹る)

Korean

Hanja

遹 • (hyul) (hangeul 휼, revised hyul, McCune–Reischauer hyul, Yale hyul)

1. follow
2. avoid