羲

羲 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿土竹木尸 (TGHDS), four-corner 8025₃, composition ⿱𦍌⿹⿰禾戈丂)

1. breath, vapor

• 曦, 㰕, 犧

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 953, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28552
• Dae Jaweon: page 1398, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3137, character 13
• Unihan data for U+7FB2

Historical forms of the character 羲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hŋral) : semantic 兮 + phonetic 義 (OC *ŋrals).

羲

1. Used in personal names.
2. Short for 伏羲 (Fúxī).
3. Short for 羲和 (xīhé).
4. ^† breath; vapor; gas
5. Alternative form of 曦 (xī)
6. Short for 王羲之 (Wáng Xīzhī).
7. a surname

• The 丂 (kǎo) component on the lower left side of the character is often mistakenly written as 乃 (nǎi). Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (《现代汉语规范词典》) specifically proscribes the substitution of 丂 with 乃.

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “羲”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 252.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Used in personal names.

• On (unclassified): ぎ (gi)、き (ki)
• Kun: いき (iki)

羲: Hán Nôm readings: hi

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