儡

儡 U+5121, 儡 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5121 ← 儠 [U+5120] CJK Unified Ideographs 儢 → [U+5122]

Translingual

Han character

儡 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+15, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人田田田 (OWWW), four-corner 2626₀, composition ⿰亻畾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 120, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1249
• Dae Jaweon: page 254, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 234, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5121

Chinese

simp. and trad.		儡
2nd round simp.		厽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 儡
Small seal script s05888
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 (畾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
摞	*roːl, *roːls
騾	*roːl
螺	*roːl
蔂	*roːl, *rul
虆	*roːl, *rul
瘰	*roːlʔ
礌	*ruːl, *ruːls
雷	*ruːl
擂	*ruːl, *ruːls
攂	*ruːl, *ruːls
礧	*ruːll, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
儡	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls
瓃	*ruːl, *rul, *ruls
櫑	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鑘	*ruːl, *ruːlʔ
鐳	*ruːl
畾	*ruːl
轠	*ruːl, *rulʔ
罍	*ruːl
蕾	*ruːlʔ
癗	*ruːlʔ
磥	*ruːlʔ
累	*ruːls, *rolʔ, *rols
儽	*ruːls, *rul
樏	*rolʔ, *rul
鸓	*rul, *rulʔ
嫘	*rul
纍	*rul, *ruls
欙	*rul
纝	*rul
壘	*rulʔ
櫐	*rulʔ
蘽	*rulʔ
藟	*rulʔ
讄	*rulʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ruːl, *ruːlʔ, *ruːls) : semantic 人 (“man”) + phonetic 畾 (OC *ruːl)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lěi (lei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lúi / lér / lé

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lěi
    • Wade–Giles: lei³
    • Yale: lěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
    • Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: leoi⁵
    • Yale: léuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lúi
    • Tâi-lô: luí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: luie
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lui⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lui⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lér
    • Tâi-lô: lér
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lə⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lé
    • Tâi-lô: lé
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lea
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /le⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /le⁵³/

Note:

• lúi - literary;
• lér/lé - 禮 is used more in the Mainland.

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• Middle Chinese: lwoj, lwojX

Rime
Character	儡	儡
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	魯回切	落猥切
Baxter	lwoj	lwojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luʌi/	/luʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/luoi/	/luoiX/
Shao Rongfen	/luɒi/	/luɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwəj/	/lwəjX/
Li Rong	/luᴀi/	/luᴀiX/
Wang Li	/luɒi/	/luɒiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑ̆i/	/luɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	léi	lěi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi4	leoi5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ruːl/, /*ruːlʔ/, /*ruːls/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	儡	儡	儡
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
No.	7711	7721	7731
Phonetic component	畾	畾	畾
Rime group	微	微	微
Rime subdivision	2	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	雷	磥	纇
Old Chinese	/*ruːl/	/*ruːlʔ/	/*ruːls/

Definitions

儡

1. Only used in 傀儡 (kuǐlěi).

Compounds

• 傀儡
• 傀儡家庭
• 傀儡戲／傀儡戏 (kuǐlěixì)
• 傀儡政權／傀儡政权 (kuǐlěi zhèngquán)
• 懸絲傀儡／悬丝傀儡
• 文樂傀儡／文乐傀儡
• 線抽傀儡／线抽傀儡
• 肉傀儡
• 藥發傀儡／药发傀儡
• 跳傀儡

 

Japanese

Kanji

儡

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. puppet
2. defeat

Readings

• Go-on: らい (rai)
• Kan-on: らい (rai)
• Kun: やぶれる (yabureru); つかれる (tsukareru)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 儡 (MC lwojX). Recorded as Middle Korean 뢰〯 (lwǒy) (Yale: lwǒy) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɾwe̞] ~ [ɾø̞] ~ [nwe̞] ~ [nø̞]
• Phonetic hangul: [뤠/뢰/눼/뇌]

Hanja

Wikisource

儡 (eumhun 꼭두각시 뢰 (kkokdugaksi roe), South Korea 꼭두각시 뇌 (kkokdugaksi noe))

1. Hanja form^? of 뢰/뇌 (“puppet”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 괴뢰 (傀儡, goeroe, “puppet”)
• 괴뢰군 (傀儡軍, goeroegun, “puppet army”)

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

儡: Hán Nôm readings: lỗi

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