Character: 宜
Modern (Beijing) reading: yí
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋaj
Classic Old Chinese: ŋaj
Western Han Chinese: ŋaj
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋe
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋe
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋe
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋe
Middle Chinese: ŋe
English meaning : be correct, proper, right; ought
Russian meaning[s]: 1) соответствовать, подходить; годный, подходящий (для чего-л.); 2) доставлять удовольствие (радость); 3) должно, следует; 4) наладить, урегулировать; 5) И (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 所安也.從**之下,一之上.多省聲. [340]
Comments: Viet. ngay is an archaic loan; standard Sino-Viet. is nghi. For *ŋ- cf. Min forms: Xiamen gi2, Chaozhou ŋi2, Fuzhou ŋie2, Jianou ŋi9. Shuowen considers 多 to be phonetic here, which is hardly correct (it is rather a semantic element: "much under the roof" = "reason, correctness"). Related to 義 *ŋaj-s 'righteous, true' q.v.
Radical: 40
Four-angle index: 620
Karlgren code: 0021 a-g
Vietnamese reading: ngay
Shijing occurrences: 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 35.1, 47.1_
