邑

• 阝 (when used as a right radical component)

邑 (Kangxi radical 163, 邑+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口日山 (RAU) or 難口日山 (XRAU), four-corner 6071₇, composition ⿱口巴)

1. Kangxi radical #163, ⾢.
2. Shuowen Jiezi radical №229

• Appendix:Chinese radical/邑
• 俋, 唈, 㛕, 悒, 挹, 浥, 𨹝, 𫼷, 𤙝, 𦛞, 𥒵, 𦀕, 𧋾, 𨁲, 𨦺, 𩗥, 䭂, 𦤡, 䱒(𱇰), 𪁗, 𩫩, 𧠅
• 𢻌, 𮖄, 𠅔, 䓃, 𤕕, 𰻧, 䇼, 𠉲, 𪁨, 裛, 扈, 𤶛, 𪪘

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39269
• Dae Jaweon: page 1767, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3753, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9091

Historical forms of the character 邑
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 囗 (“enclosure; city wall”) + 卪 (“kneeling person”).

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Schuessler (2007) proposes two possible etymologies:

• From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *Ɂip (“shelter”), whence also 葺 (OC *ʔsib, *sʰib, *zib, “thatch”);
• Related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *k-jim ~ k-jum (“house”), whence Burmese အိမ် (im), Tibetan ཁྱིམ (khyim).

邑

1. state; country; nation
2. capital; capital city
3. city; town
4. area; district
5. Original form of 悒 (yì, “to worry; anxious”).

• “邑”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. capital; capital city
2. a type of administrative division

• Go-on: おう (ō)^{←おふ (ofu, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あふ (afu, historical)}; ゆう (yū)^{←いふ (ifu, historical)}
• Kun: くに (kuni, 邑); むら (mura, 邑); うれえる (ureeru, 邑える); さと (sato, 邑)
• Nanori: すみ (sumi)

邑(ゆう) • (yū) ^{←いふ (ifu)?}

1. eup (an administrative division in Korea like a town)

邑(おおざと) • (ōzato) ^{←おほざと (ofozato)?}

1. the "large village" radical, radical 163

邑 (eumhun 고을 읍 (go'eul eup))

1. (geography) Hanja form^? of 읍 (“Town or eup, an administrative division larger and more populous than a "리" (village) but smaller and less populous than a "군" (county) or "시" (city)”).

邑: Hán Nôm readings: ấp, óp, ốp, phấp, ọp

1. chữ Hán form of ấp (“hamlet”).