邇

See also: 迩
邇 U+9087, 邇
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9087
← 邆
[U+9086] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邈 →
[U+9088]

Translingual
Japanese 迩
Simplified 迩
Traditional 邇

Han character

邇 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜一火月 (YMFB), four-corner 31302, composition ⿺辶爾)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1267, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39193
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3891, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9087

Chinese
trad. 邇
simp. 迩

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (爾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嬭 *rneːlʔ, *niːlʔ
禰 *niːlʔ
镾 *niːlʔ, *mnel
薾 *niːlʔ
檷 *niːlʔ
鑈 *niːlʔ, *neːb
瀰 *niːlʔ, *mnel, *mnelʔ
獼 *mnel
瓕 *mnel
彌 *mnel
鸍 *mnel, *hnjel
擟 *mnel
濔 *mnelʔ
壐 *smlelʔ
璽 *smlelʔ
爾 *njelʔ
邇 *njelʔ
獮 *smlenʔ
籋 *neb, *neːb

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-naːj ~ s-nej (“near”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near”), Mizo hnai (“near”), Jingpho ni (ni³¹, “near”), Burmese နီး (ni:, “bear near; be close”), 暱 (OC *niɡ, “intimate; close”).

Pronunciation

Note: ru2 - Chaoyang, Puning, Huilai.
Rime
Character 邇
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 支 (11)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 兒氏切
Baxter nyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ȵiᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ȵiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȵʑjɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ȵiə̆X/
Li
Rong		 /ȵieX/
Wang
Li		 /ȵʑǐeX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȵʑie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 ěr
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 ji5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 邇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 ěr
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nyeX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*n[ə][r]ʔ/
English near

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 邇
Reading # 1/1
No. 2818
Phonetic
component		 爾
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 爾
Old
Chinese		 /*njelʔ/

Definitions

邇

  1. (literary) near; close
  2. (literary) to approach; to come close to

Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 近 (“near; close”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 近, 邇
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 近
Mandarin Beijing 近
Taiwan 近
Jinan 近
Xi'an 近
Wuhan 近
Chengdu 近
Yangzhou 近
Hefei 近
Singapore 近
Cantonese Guangzhou 近
Hong Kong 近
Yangjiang 近
Singapore (Guangfu) 近
Gan Nanchang 近
Hakka Meixian 近
Jin Taiyuan 近
Min Bei Jian'ou 近
Min Dong Fuzhou 近
Min Nan Xiamen 近
Singapore (Hokkien) 近
Chaozhou 近
Singapore (Teochew) 近
Wu Suzhou 近
Wenzhou 近
Xiang Changsha 近
Shuangfeng 近

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

 迩

Kyūjitai

 邇

Kanji
邇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 迩)

  1. approach
  2. near, close

Readings
  • Go-on: に (ni)
  • Kan-on: じ (ji)
  • Kun: ちかい (chikai, 邇い)
  • Nanori: ちか (chika)

Compounds
Compounds
  • 邇芸(にぎ)速(はや)日(ひの)命(みこと) (Nigihayahi no mikoto)
  • 邇邇(にに)芸(ぎの)命(みこと) (Ninigi no mikoto)
  • 邇言(じげん) (jigen)
  • 伊邇(いに)色神社(しきじんじゃ) (Inishiki Jinja)
  • 遠邇(えんじ) (enji)
  • 波邇夜須毘(はにやすび)古(この)神(かみ) (Haniyasubiko no kami)
  • 和邇(わに) (Wani)
  • 遠(とお)きに行(ゆ)くは必(かなら)ず邇(ちか)きよりす (tōki ni yuku wa kanarazu chikaki yori su)

Korean

Hanja

邇 • (i) (hangeul 이, McCune–Reischauer i, Yale i)

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