See also:
U+9BC9, 鯉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9BC9

[U+9BC8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9BCA]

Translingual

Han character

Stroke order
18 strokes
Stroke order (Japan)
18 strokes

(Kangxi radical 195, +7, 18 strokes, cangjie input 弓火田土 (NFWG), four-corner 26314, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1471, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46182
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2003, character 34
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4691, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+9BC9

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *rɯʔ) : semantic (fish) + phonetic (OC *rɯʔ).

Etymology

Schuessler (2007) considers connection to Proto-Tai *plaːᴬ (fish) to be unlikely.

Norman (2014) compares it to Proto-Kam-Tai *mbləi (carp), suggesting that it may be an early loan from Chinese; compare Thai ปลาไน (nai, common carp), Lakkia [script needed] (-plai⁴, carp).

See the entry 雙鯉魚 for the figurative senses.

Pronunciation


Note:
  • dì - vernacular;
  • lǐ - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter liX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/lieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɨX/
Li
Rong
/liəX/
Wang
Li
/lĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/liX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lei5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ liX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-rəʔ/
English carp (n.)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 7828
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*rɯʔ/

Definitions

  1. carp, especially the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
  2. (literary, figuratively) letter; correspondence
  3. (literary, figuratively) messenger

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 乘鯉乘鲤
  • 九鯉湖九鲤湖
  • 冰鯉冰鲤
  • 剖鯉剖鲤
  • 孔鯉過庭孔鲤过庭
  • 尺鯉尺鲤
  • 控鯉控鲤
  • 文鯉文鲤
  • 朱砂鯉朱砂鲤
  • 朱鯉朱鲤
  • 江鯉江鲤
  • 炰鱉膾鯉炰鳖脍鲤
  • 烹鯉烹鲤
  • 王字鯉王字鲤
  • 琴高乘鯉琴高乘鲤
  • 素鯉素鲤
  • 臥冰求鯉卧冰求鲤
  • 角鯉角鲤
  • 贈鯉赠鲤
  • 赤鯉赤鲤
  • 赬鯉赪鲤
  • 躍鯉跃鲤
  • 遺鯉遗鲤
  • 錦鯉锦鲤 (jǐnlǐ)
  • 陵鯉陵鲤
  • 雙鯉双鲤 (shuānglǐ)
  • 雙鯉魚双鲤鱼 (shuānglǐyú)
  • 駕鯉驾鲤
  • 騎赤鯉骑赤鲤
  • 鯉子鲤子
  • 鯉對鲤对
  • 鯉庭鲤庭
  • 鯉書鲤书
  • 鯉溪鲤溪 (Lǐxī)
  • 鯉簰鲤簰
  • 鯉素鲤素
  • 鯉腸鲤肠
  • 鯉趨鲤趋
  • 鯉風鲤风
  • 鯉魚鲤鱼 (lǐyú)
  • 鯉魚風鲤鱼风
  • 鯪鯉鲮鲤 (línglǐ)
  • 鰻鯉鳗鲤
  • 鱸鯉鲈鲤
  • 鴻消鯉息鸿消鲤息
  • 黃鯉黄鲤
  • 龍鯉龙鲤 (lónglǐ)

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
こい
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

/ko1pi1//kopi//kofi/ → */kowi//koi/

From Old Japanese, attested in the Nihon Shoki.

Pronunciation

Noun

(こい) or (コイ) • (koi) こひ (kofi) or コヒ (kofi)?

  1. carp, specifically, the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Usage notes

  • As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as コイ.

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Proper noun

(こい) • (Koi) こひ (kofi)?

  1. a surname

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

• (ri>i) (hangeul >, revised ri>i, McCuneReischauer ri>i, Yale li>i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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