惟

惟 U+60DF, 惟
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60DF
← 惞
[U+60DE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 惠 →
[U+60E0]

Translingual

Han character

惟 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心人土 (POG), four-corner 90014, composition ⿰忄隹)

References
  • KangXi: page 391, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10820
  • Dae Jaweon: page 726, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2316, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+60DF

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 惟

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (唯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
匯 *ɢʷrɯːlʔ, *kʰʷriːl
擓 *kʰʷriːl
淮 *ɡʷriːl
睢 *qʰʷel, *sqʰʷil, *qʰʷi, *qʰʷils
嶉 *sqʷi
趡 *skʰʷilʔ
踓 *skʰʷilʔ, *ɢʷilʔ
雖 *sqʰʷi
濉 *sqʰʷi
倠 *qʰʷi
婎 *qʰʷil, *qʰʷils
蓶 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
維 *ɢʷi
惟 *ɢʷi
唯 *ɢʷi, *ɢʷiʔ
濰 *ɢʷi
琟 *ɢʷil
鷕 *ɢʷiʔ, *ɢʷiʔ
帷 *ɢʷril
鵻 *sɢʷinʔ, *tjul

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 惟
Mandarin Beijing /uei³⁵/
Harbin /uei⁴⁴/
Tianjin /vei⁴⁵/
Jinan /vei⁵⁵/
Qingdao /ve⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /uei⁵³/
Xi'an /vi²⁴/
Xining /uɨ²⁴/
Yinchuan /vei⁵³/
Lanzhou /vei⁵³/
Ürümqi /vei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /uei²¹³/
Chengdu /uei³¹/
Guiyang /uei²¹/
Kunming /uei³¹/
Nanjing /uəi²⁴/
Hefei /ue⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /uei¹¹/
Pingyao /uei¹³/
Hohhot /vei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /vi²³/
Suzhou /vi¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦui²¹³/
Wenzhou /vu³¹/
Hui Shexian /ue⁴⁴/
Tunxi /ue⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /uei¹³/
Xiangtan /uəi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /ui⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /vi¹¹/
Taoyuan /vui¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /wɐi²¹/
Nanning /wɐi²¹/
Hong Kong /wɐi²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ui³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /mi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /y²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /zui⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vui³¹/
Rime
Character 惟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 以追切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jiuɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jʷi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /juɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /jwi/
Li
Rong		 /ui/
Wang
Li		 /jwi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /wi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wéi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 wai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 惟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wéi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ywij ›
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷij/
English (copula); namely

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 惟
Reading # 1/1
No. 12853
Phonetic
component		 唯
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 惟
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢʷi/

Definitions

惟

  1. but; however; nevertheless
  2. only
  3. to think; to contemplate
  4. † Alternative form of 唯 (wéi, “to be”).
  5. † (alt. form 維／维, 唯) meaningless sentence-initial particle

Compounds
  • 不惟 (bùwéi)
  • 人心惟危
  • 令出惟行
  • 伏惟 (fúwéi)
  • 匪惟
  • 思惟
  • 惟利是逐
  • 惟天可表
  • 惟妙惟肖 (wéimiàowéixiào)
  • 惟恐
  • 惟精惟一
  • 明德惟馨
  • 正思惟
  • 民惟邦本
  • 洪惟
  • 非惟

Japanese

Kanji
惟

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. consider
  2. reflect
  3. think

Readings

Definitions
Kanji in this term
惟
これ
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 惟 – see the following entry.
【これ】
[pronoun] this
[pronoun] (deictically) this one (near the speaker)
[pronoun] (anaphorically) this one I am talking about (only the speaker knows)
[pronoun] (archaic) I; me
[pronoun] (archaic) you
[pronoun] (literary, calque of Literary Chinese 是, 之, 惟, etc.) Repeat the topic with a correct case marker to avoid any misunderstanding if it is not a subject.
Alternative spellings
此れ, 是, 之, 維, 惟
(This term, 惟, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

惟 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

惟: Hán Nôm readings: duy

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