醯

醯	U+91AF, 醯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91AF

← 醮
[U+91AE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

醰 →
[U+91B0]

Translingual

Han character

醯 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+12, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一田卜戈廿 (MWYIT), four-corner 1061₇, composition ⿰酉⿱㐬皿)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1287, character 37
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40036
Dae Jaweon: page 1788, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3599, character 3
Unihan data for U+91AF

Chinese

trad.		醯
simp. ^#		醯

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
橀	qʰɯːʔ, qʰeː
醯	*qʰeː

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xī (xi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): hei¹
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): he¹

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xī
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: si
  - Wade–Giles: hsi¹
  - Yale: syī
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shi
  - Palladius: си (si)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: hei¹
  - Yale: hēi
  - Cantonese Pinyin: hei¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: héi¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /hei̯⁵⁵/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: he¹
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: ha̤
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /he⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: he¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /he⁵⁴⁴/

Middle Chinese: xej

Rime
Character	醯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	呼雞切
Baxter	xej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hei/
Pan Wuyun	/hei/
Shao Rongfen	/xɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hɛj/
Li Rong	/xei/
Wang Li	/xiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hai¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*qʰeː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醯
Reading #	1/1
No.	13349
Phonetic component
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime
Old Chinese	/*qʰeː/

Definitions

醯

(literary) vinegar
(organic chemistry, dated, still used in Taiwan) acyl

Synonyms

(acyl): 酰 (xiān) (Mainland, Hong Kong)

Compounds

乙醯 (yǐxī)
井蛙醯雞 / 井蛙醯鸡
甕裡醯雞 / 瓮里醯鸡
醯人
醯基
醯胺 (xī'àn)
醯胺類 / 醯胺类
醯醢 (xīhǎi)
醯醬 / 醯酱
醯雞 / 醯鸡
醯雞甕裡 / 醯鸡瓮里

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “醯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

Japanese

Kanji

醯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: け (ke)
Kan-on: けい (kei)
Kun: す (su)

Korean

Hanja

醯 (eumhun 식혜 혜 (sikhye hye))

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Vietnamese

Han character

醯: Hán Nôm readings: ê

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