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See also: 𰁜 and 赤

亦	U+4EA6, 亦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EA6

← 亥
[U+4EA5]

CJK Unified Ideographs Category:CJK Unified Ideographs block#*0000020134

产 →
[U+4EA7]

Category:Han script characters#%20

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

亦Category:Translingual lemmas#亠04亦 Category:Translingual terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys#亠04亦 Category:Translingual symbols#亠04亦 Category:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#亠04亦 Category:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#亠04亦 Category:Pages with entries#亦 Category:Pages with 5 entries#亦 (Kangxi radical 8, 亠+4, 6 strokes, Cangjie input 卜中弓金 (YLNC), four-corner 0033₀, composition ⿱亠⿻小丿(GTJK) or ⿵六⿰丿亅(GTJK) or ⿱亠⿻小丨(H) or ⿵六刂(H))Category:Han char with multiple ids Category:Han script characters#亠04亦

Derived characters

㑊, 洂, 硛, 跡, 迹, 亪, 奕, 弈
変, 峦, 帟, 弯, 恋, 挛, 栾, 蛮, 鵉 (all as Japanese simplification of 䜌 to 亦)
See 𰁜 for Chinese simplification of 䜌 (luán) to 𰁜.
- Note that it does not appear that 奕 is a simplification of 奱.

Additional Derived Characters

𠲔, 𢙕, 𫼬, 𭥼, 𱣗, 𤥂, 𧙡, 𬖛, 𥿹, 𧊤, 𧧩, 𫒚, 𩎭, 𩷉, 𠅯, 𢼜, 𪁂
𱑎, 𱒢, 𮰟, 𭴢, 𭐦, 𱏨, 𨀶, 𣷖, 𡙩, 𢣫, 𱹠, 𦮰, 𬀳, 𪊳, 𫔱
𪬜, 𪶺, 𣚪, 𨏅

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 88, character 9
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 293
Dae Jaweon: page 187, character 1
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 281, character 3
Unihan data for U+4EA6

Chinese

simp. and trad.		亦
alternative forms		𠅃𡗕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 亦
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Oracle bone script j23573 j23574 j23575 j23576 j23577 j23578 j23579 j23580 j23581 j23582 j23583 j23584 j23585 j23586 j23587 j23588 j23589 j23590 j23591 j23592 j23593 j23594 j23595 j23596 j23597 j23598 j23599 j23600 j23601 j23602 j23603 j23604 j23605 j23606 j23607 j23608 j23609 j23610 j23611 j23612 j23613 j23614 j23615 j23616 j23617 j23618 j23619 j23620 j23621 j23622 j23623 j23624 j23625 j23626 j23627 j23628 j23629 j23630 j23631 j23632 j23633 j23634 j23635 j23636 j23637 j23638 j23639 j23640 j23641 Bronze inscriptions b15007 b15008 b15009 b15010 b15011 b15012 b15013 b15014 b15015 b15016 b15017 b15018 b15019 b15020 b15021 b15022 b15023 Small seal script s07485 Transcribed ancient scripts L38355
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

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

	Old Chinese
夜	*laːɡs
鵺	*laːɡs
迹	*ʔsleːɡ
跡	*ʔsleːɡ
亦	*laːɡ
弈	*laːɡ
奕	*laːɡ
帟	*laːɡ
腋	*laːɡ
掖	*laːɡ
焲	*laːɡ
液	*laːɡ

Ideogram (指事)Category:Han ideograms#亠04 – a human figure (大) with emphasis marks on the armpits — original form of 腋 (OC *laːɡ, “armpit”).^[1] Later phonetically borrowed to represent 亦 (OC *laːɡ, “also”).

Etymology

Cognate with Mizo ve (“also; too”), Mizo vêk (“again; over again”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): yì (yi⁴Category:Mandarin links with redundant target parameters#亦)

(Zhuyin): ㄧˋ
Category:Mandarin terms with audio pronunciation
Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶
Category:Cantonese terms with audio pronunciation#亠04
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): yi̍t

(Meixian, Guangdong): yid⁶
Jin (Wiktionary): ieh⁴
Northern Min (KCR): iǎ / ĭ
Eastern Min (BUC): iâ / ĭk
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): ia̍h / ia̍k / e̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): êg⁸ / ia⁷
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ⁸yiq / ⁸yeq / ⁷iq
- (Jinhua): ⁸iq
Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): i⁶

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: jik⁶
  - Yale: yihk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚²/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: id
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚⁵/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yi̍t
  - Hakka Romanization System: (r)id
  - Hagfa Pinyim: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /(j)it̚⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: yid⁶
  - Sinological IPA: /it̚⁵/
Jin
- (Taiyuan)⁺
  - Wiktionary: ieh⁴
  - Sinological IPA (old-style): /iəʔ²/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: iǎ / ĭ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ia²¹/, /i²⁴/

Note:

iǎ - vernacular;
ĭ - literary.

Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: iâ / ĭk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iɑ²⁴²/, /iʔ⁵/

Note:

iâ - vernacular;
ĭk - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍h
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iah
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /iaʔ¹²¹/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /iaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: ia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iak
  - Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /iak̚²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: e̍k
  - Tâi-lô: i̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ek
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /iɪk̚⁴/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪk̚¹²¹/

Note:

ia̍h - vernacular;
ia̍k/e̍k - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: êg⁸ / ia⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: e̍k / iā
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ek̚⁴/, /ia¹¹/

Note:

êg8 - literary;
ia7 - vernacular (訓讀) (original character is 也).

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai, Jiading, Suzhou, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, Zhoushan)
  - Wugniu: ⁸yiq
  - MiniDict: yih^入
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁵hhiq
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Jiading): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /ɦiɪʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Changzhou): /ɦiɪʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /ɦiəʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Shaoxing): /ɦieʔ²³/
  - Sinological IPA (Ningbo): /ɦiɪʔ¹²/
  - Sinological IPA (Zhoushan): /ɦiəʔ¹²/
- (Northern: Songjiang)
  - Wugniu: ⁸yeq
  - Sinological IPA (Songjiang): /ɦiʌʔ²²/
- (Northern: Jiaxing)
  - Wugniu: ⁷iq
  - MiniDict: ih^入
  - Sinological IPA (Jiaxing): /iɪʔ⁵⁵/
- (Jinhua)
  - Wugniu: ⁸iq
  - Sinological IPA (Jinhua): /iəʔ²¹²/
Xiang
- (Changsha)
  - Wiktionary: i⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /i²⁴/

Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 亦
Mandarin	Beijing	/i⁵¹/
	Harbin	/i⁵³/
	Tianjin	/i⁵³/
	Jinan	/i⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/i⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/i⁴²/
	Xi'an	/i⁵³/
	Xining	/ji⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/i¹³/
	Lanzhou	/i¹³/
	Ürümqi	/i²¹³/
	Wuhan	/i²¹³/
	Chengdu	/i³¹/
	Guiyang	/i²¹/
	Kunming	/i³¹/
	Nanjing	/iʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/iəʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəʔ²/
	Pingyao	/iʌʔ⁵³/
	Hohhot	/iəʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦiɪʔ¹/
	Suzhou	/ɦiəʔ³/
	Hangzhou	/ɦiəʔ²/
	Wenzhou	/jai²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/i²²/
Hui	Tunxi	/i⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/i²⁴/
Xiang	Xiangtan	/i²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/it̚⁵/
Hakka	Taoyuan	/ʒït̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jek̚²/
	Nanning	/jek̚²²/
	Hong Kong	/jek̚²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/ik̚⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/iʔ⁵/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/i²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/ia³¹/ 訓讀
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/zek̚⁵/ /ziak̚³/ /zia³³/

Middle Chinese: yek

Rime
Character	亦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	羊益切
Baxter	yek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/iæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiajk̚/
Li Rong	/iɛk̚/
Wang Li	/jĭɛk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/i̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɢ](r)Ak/, /*ɢ(r)Ak/

(Zhengzhang): /*laːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	亦	亦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ yek ›	‹ yek ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)Ak/	/*ɢ(r)Ak/
English	armpit	also
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	亦
Reading #	1/1
No.	14996
Phonetic component	亦
Rime group	鐸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	繹
Old Chinese	/*laːɡ/

Definitions

亦Category:Chinese lemmas#亠04 Category:Chinese hanzi#亠04 Category:Chinese entries with incorrect language header#亠04 Category:Pages with entries#亦 Category:Pages with 5 entries#亦

(formal Category:Chinese formal terms#亠04) also; too; likewise; still
- Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 7
  其竹節度三尺，柔細可為索，亦以皮為麻。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  其竹节度三尺，柔细可为索，亦以皮为麻。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  Qí zhújié duó sān chǐ, róuxì kě wéi suǒ, yì yǐ pí wéi má. [Pinyin]
  Each joint measures three chi; thin and supple, it may be used as a rope, and its skin may also be used as linen.
  Category:Classical Chinese terms with usage examples
(formal Category:Chinese formal terms#亠04) only; just
(formal Category:Chinese formal terms#亠04) already
(formal Category:Chinese formal terms#亠04) although
(Suzhounese Category:Suzhounese Wu#亠04) again
- 1993, 蘇州方言詞典, page 19:
  
  讀仔一遍亦讀一遍。 [Suzhounese, trad.]
  读仔一遍亦读一遍。 [Suzhounese, simp.]
  To read something again after having read it
  Category:Wu terms with quotations
a surname, YiCategory:Chinese surnames#亠04
meaningless particle

Synonyms

(also):

Dialectal synonyms of 也 (“also, too”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		亦
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		也
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	也
	Taiwan	也
	Malaysia	也
	Singapore	也
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	也
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	也
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	也
	Wuhan	也
	Guilin	也
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	也
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	也
Cantonese	Guangzhou	都, 亦
	Hong Kong	都, 亦, 亦都
	Macau	都, 亦 formal
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	都, 也
	Taishan	亦
	Kaiping (Chikan)	亦, 都, 亦都
	Yangjiang	也
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	都
	Singapore (Guangfu)	都, 亦都
Gan	Nanchang	也
Hakka	Meixian	也
	Wuhua (Meilin)	也
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	乜
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	乜, 也
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	乜
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	乜
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	乜
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	嘛
	Kuching (Hepo)	呠
Huizhou	Jixi	也
Jin	Taiyuan	也
Northern Min	Jian'ou	也
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	也
Southern Min	Xiamen	也, 嘛
	Quanzhou	也, 嘛
	Zhangzhou	也, 嘛
	Taipei (Wanhua)	也
	Kaohsiung	嘛
	Yilan	嘛
	Changhua (Lukang)	嘛
	Taichung (Wuqi)	嘛
	Tainan	嘛
	Taitung	嘛
	Hsinchu	嘛
	Penghu (Magong)	嘛
	Penang (Hokkien)	呠
	Singapore (Hokkien)	也, 呠, 嘛
	Manila (Hokkien)	也, 嘛, 閣
	Chaozhou	也
	Shantou	也
	Jieyang	也
	Singapore (Teochew)	呠, 也, 嘛
	Pontianak (Teochew)	也
	Wenchang	也
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	都
Wu	Shanghai	也
	Suzhou	亦
	Wenzhou	也
Xiang	Changsha	也
Xiang	Shuangfeng	也

(again):

Dialectal synonyms of 又 (“again; once more”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		又
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	又
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	又
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	又
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	又
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	又
	Wuhan	又
	Guilin	又
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	又
Jianghuai Mandarin	Hefei	又
Cantonese	Guangzhou	又, 又試
	Hong Kong	又, 又試
	Yangjiang	又
Gan	Nanchang	又
Hakka	Meixian	又
Jin	Taiyuan	又
Northern Min	Jian'ou	又, 已
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	復
Southern Min	Xiamen	閣, 閣再, 又閣再, 又閣
	Quanzhou	閣, 閣再, 又閣再, 又閣
	Zhangzhou	閣, 閣再, 又閣再, 又閣
	Taipei	閣 GT, 閣再 GT, 又閣 GT
	Singapore (Hokkien)	閣, 閣再, 又閣
	Manila (Hokkien)	閣, 閣再
	Chaozhou	又, 又再
	Shantou	又
Wu	Shanghai	再, 又
	Suzhou	亦
	Wenzhou	亦
Xiang	Changsha	又
Xiang	Shuangfeng	又
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

不亦 (bùyì)
不亦樂乎 / 不亦乐乎 (bùyìlèhū)
亦步亦趨 / 亦步亦趋 (yìbùyìqū)
亦然 (yìrán)
亦都
人云亦云 (rényúnyìyún)
反之亦然 (fǎnzhīyìrán)
死亦瞑目 (sǐyìmíngmù)
盜亦有道 / 盗亦有道 (dàoyìyǒudào)
葉亦克 / 叶亦克 (Yèyìkè)

References

↑ 高鴻縉『中国字例』台湾省立師範大学出版、1960年、374頁。
裘錫圭『文字学概要』商務印書館、1988年、121頁。
張世超、孫凌安、金国泰、馬如森『金文形義通解』中文出版社、1996年、2471頁。
季旭昇撰『説文新証』芸文印書館、2014年、765。
林志強等評注『《文源》評注』中国社会科学出版社、2017年、355頁。

Category:Advanced Mandarin#亠04