灰

灰 (radical 86, 火+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 大火 (KF), four-corner 4080₉ or 7128₉, composition ⿸𠂇火(GHTK) or ⿸厂火(JV or U+2F835))

• 𠗇, 咴, 㞀, 恢, 拻, 洃, 脄, 烣, 㷇, 詼(诙), 炭, 盔

• KangXi: page 665, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18859
• Dae Jaweon: page 1075, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2188, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7070

• Unihan data for U+2F835

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) – fire that can be touched with the hand (ash). 又 has been modified to 𠂇; compare 友 (“friend”), 右 (“right”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷut ~ hwut (“ashes, dust”) (STEDT; Schuessler (2007) reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wu). Compare Mizo vutᴸ, Apatani mù-bu, Manipuri ut, Northern Tujia bu³ ci².

灰

1. lime; mortar
   • 灰泥 (huīní, “plaster, mortar”)
   • 石灰 (shíhuī, “lime”)
   • 灰岩 (“limestone”)
2. dust; ash

   • 電腦屏幕上有一層灰。 [MSC, trad.]
     电脑屏幕上有一层灰。 [MSC, simp.]

     Diànnǎo píngmù shàng yǒu yī céng huī. [Pinyin]

     There's a layer of dust on the computer screen.

   • 他吹乾淨這本書上的灰。 [MSC, trad.]
     他吹干净这本书上的灰。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā chuī qiánjìng zhè běn shū shàng de huī. [Pinyin]

     He blew out the dust on the book.

3. grey
   • 灰色 (huīsè, “gray color”)
4. disheartened
5. The tenth day of the month in Chinese telegraph messages

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. ashes
2. puckery juice
3. cremate

• Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: くい (kui)
• Kun: はい (hai, 灰, Jōyō)^{←はひ (fafi, historical)}

灰 (hiragana はい, rōmaji hai, historical hiragana はひ)

1. ash

   塵 (ちり)は塵 (ちり)に、灰 (はい)は灰 (はい)に

   chiri wa chiri ni, hai wa hai ni

   dust to dust, ashes to ashes

灰 • (hoe) (hangeul 회, McCune–Reischauer hoe, Yale hoy)

1. ashes
2. dust
3. lime
4. mortar

灰 (pu1)

1. ash

灰 (hôi, hoi, khôi, vôi, hui)

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