彙

彙 U+5F59, 彙 ← 彘[U+5F58] CJK Unified Ideographs 彚 →[U+5F5A] Stroke order (Japan)

彙 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+10, 13 strokes, Cangjie input 女一月田木 (VMBWD), four-corner 27904, composition ⿳彑冖果)

• 𧁸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9936
• Dae Jaweon: page 681, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 962, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5F59

trad. 彙 simp. 汇* alternative forms

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢruds): semantic 㣇 + abbreviated phonetic 胃 (OC *ɢuds).

hedgehog Its graph is also used to 彙／汇 (huì, “category, class”), which is perhaps a variant of 類／类 (lèi) without the latter’s l- initial. Also note 彙／汇 (huì, “hedgehog”)’s Cantonese pronunciation leoi6.(Bodman, 1980; Schuessler, 2007) Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Mizo kuh (“porcupine’s quill, porcupine”) and Mizo sakuh (“porcupine”). In Tibeto-Burman cognates *k- is seemingly a prefix.(Schuessler, 2007) category, class If 彙 (OC *wəs) were related to 類 (OC *rus), it may be a form whose initial *r- had been treated as a prefix and dropped.

彙

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 蝟 / 猬 (wèi, “hedgehog”) 彙毛刺 [Classical Chinese, trad.]汇毛刺 [Classical Chinese, simp.]From: Erya, 5th – 2nd century BCEHuì máo cì [Pinyin]Hedgehogs, their hairs are pointy
2. to gather; to assemble
3. collection; class; category

Shinjitai(extended)

彚

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彙

(Jōyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 彚)

1. hedgehog
2. collection, compilation

• Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)←ゐ (wi, historical)
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)←ゐ (wi, historical)
• Kun: はりねずみ (harinezumi, 彙)、あつめる (atsumeru, 彙める)、たぐい (tagui, 彙)

Kanji in this term 彙 いGrade: S on’yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 彙 (MC hjw+jH).

彙(い) • (i) ←ゐ (wi)?

1. to sort and collect; collection, compilation, group

Kanji in this term 彙 はりねずみGrade: S kun’yomi For pronunciation and definitions of 彙 – see the following entry. 【針鼠はりねずみ】 [noun] a hedgehog (This term, 彙, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

The original reading is 위 (wi) based on Middle Chinese 彙 (MC hjw+jH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [hɥi] ~ [hy]
• Phonetic hangul: [휘]

彙 (eumhun 모을 휘 (mo’eul hwi))

1. hanja form? of 휘 (“collection”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

This character was confused with 暈.

彙: Hán Nôm readings: vừng, vị, vựng, hối

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