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委

委 U+59D4, 委
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D4
← 姓
[U+59D3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 姕 →
[U+59D5]

Translingual

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Han character

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委 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木女 (HDV), four-corner 20404, composition ⿱禾女)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 259, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6181
  • Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1038, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+59D4

Chinese

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trad. 委
simp. # 委

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 委
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
   
Characters in the same phonetic series (委) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
矮 *qraːlʔ
躷 *qraːlʔ
捼 *noːl, *nuːl, *njul
倭 *qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol
涹 *qoːl
踒 *qoːl
餧 *nuːlʔ, *qrols
諉 *nols, *qrolʔ
痿 *njol, *qrol
萎 *qrol, *qrols
逶 *qrol
覣 *qrol
蜲 *qrol, *qrolʔ
委 *qrol, *qrolʔ
緌 *njul

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qrol, *qrolʔ) : phonetic 禾 (OC *ɡoːl) + semantic 女 (in the oracle bones inscriptions, there was 𠃊 instead of a woman kneeling).

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation 1

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 委
Mandarin Beijing /uei²¹⁴/
Harbin /uei²¹³/
Tianjin /vei¹³/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vəʔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /uei⁵³/
Xining /uɨ⁵³/
Yinchuan /vei⁵³/
Lanzhou /vei⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vei⁵¹/
Wuhan /uei⁴²/
Chengdu /uei⁵³/
Guiyang /uei⁴²/
Kunming /uei⁵³/
Nanjing /uəi²¹²/
Hefei /ue²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vei⁵³/
Pingyao /uei⁵³/
Hohhot /vei⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ue³⁵/
Suzhou /ue̞⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔui⁵³/
Wenzhou /v̠u³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ue³⁵/
Tunxi /ue²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /uəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /vi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vui²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wai³⁵/
Nanning /wɐi³⁵/
Hong Kong /wai³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /ui⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /uoi³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /y²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /ui⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /ui²¹³/
Rime
Character 委
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於詭切
Baxter 'jweX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠiuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔjwiə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/ʔjueX/
Wang
Li 		/ǐweX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔwie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wěi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wai2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 委 委 委
Reading # 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wěi wěi wěi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)orʔ/
English entrust to collect; store bend; hang down

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 委
Reading # 2/2
No. 12903
Phonetic
component 		委
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		委
Old
Chinese 		/*qrolʔ/
Definitions
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委

  1. to entrust; to appoint; to send; to commission
  2. to cast aside
  3. to gather; to pile up
  4. indirect
  5. lower reaches of a river
  6. dejected
  7. indeed
  8. Short for 委員／委员 (wěiyuán, “committee member”).
  9. Short for 委員會／委员会 (wěiyuánhuì, “committee”).
  10. a surname
Compounds
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Pronunciation 2

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Rime
Character 委
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 於爲切
Baxter 'jwe
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔʷᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔiuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔjwiə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ʔjue/
Wang
Li 		/ǐwe/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʔwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wēi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		wai1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 委
Reading # 1/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wēi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ʔjwe ›
Old
Chinese 		/*q(r)oj/
English 委蛇 compliant, complaisant

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 委
Reading # 1/2
No. 12901
Phonetic
component 		委
Rime
group 		歌
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		逶
Old
Chinese 		/*qrol/
Notes 小徐禾聲
Definitions
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委

  1. Only used in 委蛇 (wēiyí, “winding; curved”).
Compounds
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Etymology 2

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For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 諉 (“to shirk; to give excuses”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 諉).
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Etymology 3

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For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 萎 (“to wither; to wilt; to decline; to weaken; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 萎).
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Etymology 4

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For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 痿 (“to be lacking in sexual energies”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 痿).
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Kanji

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委

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. committee

Readings

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Etymology

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Kanji in this term
委
い
Grade: 3
on'yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 委 (MC 'jwe|'jweX).

Affix

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委(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

  1. entrust; leave to
  2. cast aside; abandon
  3. detailed
  4. Short for 委員会 (iinkai, “committee”).

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 委 (MC 'jweX).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 ᅙᅱᆼ〯 (Yale: qwǔy)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Gwangju Cheonjamun, 1575 ᄇᆞ릴 (Yale: polil) 위 (Yale: wuy)
Sinjeung Yuhap, 1576 맛딜 (Yale: mastil)
더뎌둘 (Yale: tetye-twul)		 위 (Yale: wuy)
Seokbong Cheonjamun, 1583 ᄇᆞ릴 (Yale: polil) 위 (Yale: wuy)

Pronunciation

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Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

委 (eumhun 맡길 위 (matgil wi))

  1. hanja form? of 위 (“to entrust; to commission”) [verbal root; affix]
  2. hanja form? of 위 (“short for 위원회(委員會) (wiwonhoe, “committee”)”) [noun]

Usage notes

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  • (committee): A common convention in news headlines, this is almost always written solely in the hanja form, even in contemporary Korean text otherwise devoid of any hanja.

Compounds

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Compounds

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Han character

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委: Hán Nôm readings: ủy/uỷ, uế

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