委

委 U+59D4, 委
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59D4
← 姓
[U+59D3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 姕 →
[U+59D5]

Translingual

Han character

委 (radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹木女 (HDV), four-corner 20404, composition ⿱禾女)

References
  • KangXi: page 259, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6181
  • Dae Jaweon: page 524, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1038, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+59D4

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 委

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 委
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (委) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
矮 *qraːlʔ
躷 *qraːlʔ
捼 *noːl, *nuːl, *njul
倭 *qoːl, *qoːlʔ, *qrol
涹 *qoːl
踒 *qoːl
餧 *nuːlʔ, *qrols
諉 *nols, *qrolʔ
痿 *njol, *qrol
萎 *qrol, *qrols
逶 *qrol
覣 *qrol
蜲 *qrol, *qrolʔ
委 *qrol, *qrolʔ
緌 *njul

Etymology 1

Pronunciation 1
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 委
Mandarin Beijing /uei²¹⁴/
Harbin /uei²¹³/
Tianjin /vei¹³/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /vəʔ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /uei⁵³/
Xining /uɨ⁵³/
Yinchuan /vei⁵³/
Lanzhou /vei⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /vei⁵¹/
Wuhan /uei⁴²/
Chengdu /uei⁵³/
Guiyang /uei⁴²/
Kunming /uei⁵³/
Nanjing /uəi²¹²/
Hefei /ue²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /vei⁵³/
Pingyao /uei⁵³/
Hohhot /vei⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ue³⁵/
Suzhou /ue̞⁵¹/
Hangzhou /ʔui⁵³/
Wenzhou /v̠u³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ue³⁵/
Tunxi /ue²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei⁴¹/
Xiangtan /uəi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /ui²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /vi⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /vui²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wai³⁵/
Nanning /wɐi³⁵/
Hong Kong /wai³⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ui⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uoi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /ui⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ui²¹³/
Rime
Character 委
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 於詭切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjwiə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjueX/
Wang
Li		 /ǐweX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔwie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wěi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 委 委 委
Reading # 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wěi wěi wěi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX › ‹ ʔjweX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)ojʔ/ /*q(r)orʔ/
English entrust to collect; store bend; hang down

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 委
Reading # 2/2
No. 12903
Phonetic
component		 委
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 委
Old
Chinese		 /*qrolʔ/
Definitions

委

  1. to entrust; to appoint; to send; to commission
  2. to cast aside
  3. to gather; to pile up
  4. indirect
  5. lower reaches of a river
  6. dejected
  7. indeed
  8. Short for 委員／委员 (wěiyuán, “committee member”).
  9. Short for 委員會／委员会 (wěiyuánhuì, “committee”).
  10. A surname​.
Compounds
Derived terms from 委

Pronunciation 2
Rime
Character 委
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 支 (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 於爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔʷᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔiuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔjwiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /ʔjue/
Wang
Li		 /ǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wēi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 委
Reading # 1/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ʔjwe ›
Old
Chinese		 /*q(r)oj/
English 委蛇 compliant, complaisant

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 委
Reading # 1/2
No. 12901
Phonetic
component		 委
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 逶
Old
Chinese		 /*qrol/
Notes 小徐禾聲
Definitions

委

  1. Only used in 委蛇 (wēiyí, “winding; curved”).
Compounds
Derived terms from 委

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 諉 (“pass buck, lay blame on others”).
(This character, 委, is the second-round simplified form of 諉.)
Notes:

Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 萎 (“to wither; to wilt”).
(This character, 委, is the second-round simplified form of 萎.)
Notes:

Etymology 4
For pronunciation and definitions of 委 – see 痿 (“to be paralysed; impotent; lacking in sexual power”).
(This character, 委, is the second-round simplified form of 痿.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji
委

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. committee

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
委
い
Grade: 3
on’yomi

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 委 (MC ʔˠiuᴇ, ʔˠiuᴇX).

Affix

委 (hiragana い, rōmaji i, historical hiragana ゐ)

  1. entrust; leave to
  2. cast aside; abandon
  3. detailed
  4. Short for 委員会 (iinkai, “committee”).

Korean

Hanja

委 • (wi) (hangeul 위, revised wi, McCune–Reischauer wi, Yale wi)

  1. put in charge of, commmission

Compounds
  • 委託(위탁,
  • 對策委(대책위, )
  • 全委(전위, )
  • 特委(특위, )

Vietnamese

Han character

委: Hán Nôm readings: ủy/uỷ, uế

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