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易 (Kangxi radical 72,日+4, 8 strokes,cangjie input日心竹竹 (APHH),four-corner6022₇,composition⿱日勿)

• 㑥,埸,㛫,惕,掦,晹,焬,㻛,睗,裼,緆(𰬣),舓,蜴,𧩎,賜(赐),踢,錫(锡),䯜,鯣,𪎥
• 逷,䞶,剔,𢒗,敡,鶍,䓪,鬄,痬,𪎧,惖

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 492, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13814
• Dae Jaweon: page 854, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1494, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6613

• Unihan data for U+F9E0

Historical forms of the character易
Shang	Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled inHan)	Liushutong (compiled inMing)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Oracle bone script andbronze inscriptions: a pictogram (象形) of a filled container, the original form of賜 (OC*sleːɡs, “to confer, to bestow”). Possibly specialised from益 (OC*qleɡ, “to increase, to add”). Perhaps borrowed phonetically to mean "easy".

The character is not the pictogram of achameleon, as folk etymology says. Unrelated to陽 since it doesn't represent thesun.

From移 (OC*lal, “to change; to alter”) + k-extension (Schuessler, 2007). The meaning of "change, alter" is linked to "give, bestow" since something given by somebody to somebody else "changes" its owner.

Thisetymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

易

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese)Original form of賜／赐 (cì, “togive; tobestow”).
2. toexchange; tointerchange
3. tochange; toalter; tomodify
4. short for易經／易经 (Yìjīng, “I Ching”)
5. asurname

• → Thai:แลก(lɛ̂ɛk)

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*loj(“easy”). Cognate withBurmeseလွယ်(lwai,“easy”).

易

1. easy;simple; notdifficult

   Antonym:難 /难

2. gentle;kind
3. effortless;prone to
4. easily;effortlessly

• → Vietnamese:dễ

Possibly from慧 (OC*ɡʷeːds) (Li Ru-long, 2002).

易

1. (Min)easy; notdifficult

• “易”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 郭启熹[Guo, Qixi], editor (2016), “易”, in龙岩方言词典 LONGYAN FANGYAN CIDIAN [Dictionary of Longyan dialect] (overall work in Min Nan and Mandarin), Xiamen:鷺江出版社[Lujiang Publishing House],→ISBN, page60.

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on:い(i,Jōyō)、やく(yaku)
• Kan-on:い(i,Jōyō)、えき(eki,Jōyō)
• Kun:おさめる(osameru,易める)、やさしい(yasashii,易しい,Jōyō)、かえる(kaeru,易える)

FromMiddle Chinese易 (MC yek).

Thekan'on, so likely a later borrowing.

• (Tokyo)えき[èkí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [e̞kʲi]

易(えき)• (eki) 

1. divination;fortune-telling

• 卜(うらない)(uranai)
• 占(うら)(ura)
• 卜占(ぼくせん)(bokusen)

易(えき)• (Eki) 

1. short for易経(Ekikyō,“I Ching(Chinese classic text)”)

易(えき)• (eki) 

1. exchange
2. divination;fortune-telling

FromMiddle Chinese易 (MC yeH).

• (Tokyo)い[íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [i]

易(い)• (i) 

1. somethingeasy to do;easiness

易(い)• (i) 

1. easy;simple

FromMiddle Chinese易 (MC yek).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[jʌ̹k̚]
• Phonetic hangul:[역]

KoreanWikisource has texts containing thehanja:

易

易 (eumhun바꿀역(bakkul yeok))

1. hanja form^? of역(“change;alteration;modification”)

FromMiddle Chinese易 (MC yeH).

• (SK Standard/Seoul)IPA^(key):[i(ː)]
• Phonetic hangul:[이(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

易 (eumhun쉬울이(swiul i))

1. hanja form^? of이(“easy”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary,전자사전／電子字典.[2]

易:Hán Nôm readings:dịch,dể,dễ,di,diệc,dẻ,dẹ,dị,dịu,rẻ,rể

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