彙

彙 (Kangxi radical 58, 彐+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女一月田木 (VMBWD), four-corner 2790₄, composition ⿳彑冖果)

• 𧁸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 362, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9936
• Dae Jaweon: page 681, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 962, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5F59

Historical forms of the character 彙
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɢruds) : semantic 㣇 + abbreviated phonetic 胃 (OC *ɢuds).

hedgehog

Its graph is also used to 彙／汇 (huì, “category, class”), which is perhaps a variant of 類／类 (lèi) without the latter's l- initial. Also note 彙／汇 (huì, “hedgehog”)'s Cantonese pronunciation leoi⁶.(Bodman, 1980; Schuessler, 2007)

Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Mizo kuh (“porcupine's quill, porcupine”) and Mizo sakuh (“porcupine”). In Tibeto-Burman cognates *k- is seemingly a prefix.(Schuessler, 2007)

category, class

If 彙 (OC *wəs) were related to 類 (OC *rus), it may be a form whose initial *r- had been treated as a prefix and dropped.

彙

1. ^† Alternative form of 蝟／猬 (wèi, “hedgehog”)

   彙毛刺 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   汇毛刺 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: Erya, 5^th – 2^nd century BCE

   Huì máo cì [Pinyin]

   Hedgehogs, their hairs are pointy

2. to gather; to assemble
3. collection; class; category

(common “Jōyō” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 彚)

1. hedgehog
2. collection, compilation

• Go-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kan-on: い (i, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, historical)}
• Kun: はりねずみ (harinezumi, 彙); あつめる (atsumeru, 彙める); たぐい (tagui, 彙)

/wi/ → /i/

From Middle Chinese 彙 (MC hjw+jH).

彙(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. to sort and collect; collection, compilation, group

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading.

The original reading is 위 (wi) based on Middle Chinese 彙 (MC hjw+jH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [hɥi] ~ [hy]
• Phonetic hangul: [휘]

Wikisource 彙 (eumhun 모을 휘 (mo'eul hwi))

1. Hanja form^? of 휘 (“collection”).

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

This character was confused with 暈.

彙: Hán Nôm readings: vừng, vị, vựng, hối

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