絵

絵 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女火人一戈 (VFOMI), composition ⿰糹会)

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 924, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27464
• Dae Jaweon: page 1359, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 3394, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7D75

Simplified from 繪 (會 → 会).

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03185-001

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 繪)

1. picture

• Go-on: え (e, Jōyō)^{←ゑ (we, historical)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai, Jōyō)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}
• Kun: えがく (egaku, 絵く)

• 絵(かい)画(が) (kaiga, “picture”)
• 絵(え)像(ぞう) (ezō, “portrait”)
• 絵(え)馬(ま) (ema, “ema, wooden plaque”)
• 絵(え)詞(ことば) (ekotoba, “words describing a picture”)
• 絵(え)文(も)字(じ) (emoji, “pictograph, emoji”)

/we/ → /e/

From Middle Chinese 繪 (yuaih, reconstructed by some linguists as ɦuɑi^H).

The goon reading, so likely the initial borrowing. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• 画

• (Tokyo) え​ [éꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [e̞]

絵(え) • (e) ^{←ゑ (we)?}

1. picture, painting
2. drawing, sketch

The kanji 絵 and 画 (also pronounced e, but can also be pronounced as ga), both having the same meanings and on-readings, can be confusing. While 絵 is used to mean pictures in the "drawn" sense (for example, 挿(さし)絵(え) (sashie), "illustration"), it can also refer to art in front of the speaker, such as 浮(うき)世(よ)絵(え) (ukiyoe, “ukiyo-e”) or 蒔(まき)絵(え) (makie, “sprinkled lacquer”). 画 refers to art by extension, for example, 日(に)本(ほん)画(が) (nihonga, “Japanese painting”). Sometimes, both kanji can be interchanged, an example being 影(かげ)絵(え), 影(かげ)画(え) (kagee, “shadow play”)

From Middle Chinese 繪 (MC ɦuɑi^H).

• IPA^(key): [ka̠i]

絵(かい) • (kai) ^{←くわい (kwai)?}

1. picture, painting, drawing, sketch

絵: Hán Nôm readings: gói, gối

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