挹

挹 U+6339, 挹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6339 ← 挸 [U+6338] CJK Unified Ideographs 挺 → [U+633A]

Translingual

Han character

挹 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手口日山 (QRAU), four-corner 5601₇, composition ⿰扌邑)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

Derived characters

• 𦶂

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 432, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12105
• Dae Jaweon: page 781, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1883, character 6
• Unihan data for U+6339

Chinese

simp. and trad.		挹

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
唈	*qɯːb, *qrɯb
浥	*qrɯːb, *qab, *qrɯb
裛	*qrab, *qab, *qrɯb
俋	*r'ɯb
挹	*qɯb
邑	*qrɯb
悒	*qrɯb

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qɯb) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 邑 (OC *qrɯb).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yì (yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jap¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ip

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yì
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴
    • Yale: yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • Palladius: и (i)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jap¹
    • Yale: yāp
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jap⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yeb¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐp̚⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ip
    • Tâi-lô: ip
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ib
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ip̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ip̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ip̚³²/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jip

Rime
Character	挹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	緝 (141)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	伊入切
Baxter	'jip
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪp̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔip̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjep̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔip̚/
Li Rong	/ʔiəp̚/
Wang Li	/ĭĕp̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯əp̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jap1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*qip/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qɯb/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	挹	挹	挹
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›	‹ ʔjip ›
Old Chinese	/*qip/	/*qip/	/*qip/
English	to bow; suppress	to ladle out	suppress
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	挹
Reading #	1/1
No.	15020
Phonetic component	邑
Rime group	緝
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	揖
Old Chinese	/*qɯb/

Definitions

挹

1. (literary) to ladle out; to scoop up

   • 我若能挹你以為眼，我將贈給那善歌的盲妹，她必明眸善睞了。 [MSC, trad.]
     我若能挹你以为眼，我将赠给那善歌的盲妹，她必明眸善睐了。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1924, 朱自清 (Zhu Ziqing), 綠

     Wǒ ruò néng yì nǐ yǐ wéi yǎn, wǒ jiāng zèng gěi nà shàn gē de mángmèi, tā bì míngmóushànlài le. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 挹 – see 揜 (“(Hokkien) to conceal; to hide; to cover up (by getting something)”). (This character is a variant form of 揜).

Japanese

Kanji

挹

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

Readings

• On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)、おう (ō)
• Kun: くむ (kumu)

Korean

Hanja

挹 • (eup) (hangeul 읍, revised eup, McCune–Reischauer ŭp, Yale up)

1. to bale out
2. to decant liquids

Vietnamese

Han character

挹: Hán Nôm readings: úp

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