衵

衵 U+8875, 衵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8875 ← 衴 [U+8874] CJK Unified Ideographs 衶 → [U+8876]

Translingual

Han character

衵 (Kangxi radical 145, 衣+4, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 中日 (LA) or 難中日 (XLA), four-corner 3620₀, composition ⿰衤日)

1. chemise

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1112, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34135
• Dae Jaweon: page 1578, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3078, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8875

Chinese

simp. and trad.		衵

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
涅	*niːɡ
捏	*niːɡ
篞	*niːɡ
衵	*niɡ, *njiɡ
日	*njiɡ
馹	*njiɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): rì (ri⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄖˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat⁶ / nik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: rì
    • Zhuyin: ㄖˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: rìh
    • Wade–Giles: jih⁴
    • Yale: r̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ryh
    • Palladius: жи (ži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɻ̩⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jat⁶ / nik¹
    • Yale: yaht / nīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁹ / nik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed⁶ / nig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚²/, /nɪk̚⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nyit, nrit

Rime
Character	衵	衵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	質 (49)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	人質切	尼質切
Baxter	nyit	nrit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵiɪt̚/	/ɳˠiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵit̚/	/ɳᵚit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑjet̚/	/niet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵit̚/	/ɳjit̚/
Li Rong	/ȵiĕt̚/	/njĕt̚/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭĕt̚/	/nĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/	/ni̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	rì	nì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jat6	nat6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nik/

  (Zhengzhang): /*niɡ/, /*njiɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	衵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	rì
Middle Chinese	‹ nyit ›
Old Chinese	/*nik/
English	a lady"s clothes nearest to the body
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	衵	衵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10844	10847
Phonetic component	日	日
Rime group	質	質
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	暱	日
Old Chinese	/*niɡ/	/*njiɡ/

Definitions

衵

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Japanese

Kanji

衵

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にち (nichi)
• Kan-on: じつ (jitsu)
• Kun: あこめ (akome)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
衵
あこめ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
袙

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a̠ko̞me̞]
• (Tokyo) あこめ [àkómé] (Heiban – [0])

Noun

衵(あこめ) • (akome) 

1. open-sleeved inner robe, worn as a middle layer in men's court dress
2. an inner garment for page girls, sometimes worn on top

Usage notes

• Sometimes also used to refer to 袿(うちき) (uchiki)

See also

• 束帯(そくたい) (sokutai)
• 布袴(ほうこ) (hōko)
• 衣冠(いかん) (ikan)
• 直衣(のうし) (nōshi)

References

• “^▲衵”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026