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井 (Kangxi radical 7, 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 廿廿 (TT), four-corner 5500₀, composition ⿻一廾)

• 㘫, 妌, 𪪁, 汫, 阱, 𪰉, 肼, 㐩, 𭾠, 畊, 𮈃, 𬙍, 耕, 䎴, 𬟷, 𮗻, 𬪦, 㓝, 刱, 𫡳, 𫎁, 宑, 𬜣, 𬼾, 𭾞, 穽, 𬆓, 䨍, 坓, 汬, 丼, 𬑽, 囲
• 𰃖, 进, 讲 (Simplified from 進 and 講)

• ヰ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 86, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 258
• Dae Jaweon: page 183, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 10, character 4
• Unihan data for U+4E95

Pictogram (象形) – a square well, with supports on four sides.

Some forms have a stone inside the well, as in 丼.

Alternatively, original character of 刑, 形 and 型^[1].

井

1. well (a hole sunk into the ground) (Classifier: 口; 眼)
2. well-shaped object; mineshaft, pit
3. hometown
4. neat; tidy

   井井有條／井井有条  ―  jǐngjǐngyǒutiáo  ―  neat and tidy

5. 48th hexagram of the I Ching
6. a surname

• “井”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “井”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 270.

井

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. well

• Go-on: しょう (shō, Jōyō ^†)^{←しやう (syau, historical)}
• Kan-on: せい (sei, Jōyō)
• Kun: い (i, 井, Jōyō)^{←ゐ (wi, 井, historical)}、いど (ido, 井)^{←ゐど (wido, 井, historical)}

wi > i.

• (Tokyo) い [íꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [i]

井(い) • (i) ^{←ゐ (wi)?}

1. well (water source)

• 井(い)の中(なか)の蛙(かわず)大海(たいかい)を知(し)らず (i no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu, “a narrow world view based on limited experience”, literally “a frog in a well does not know the great ocean”)

井(い) • (I) 

1. a surname

From Middle Chinese 井 (tsjeng^X).

• (Tokyo) せー [séꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [se̞ː]

井(せい) • (sei) 

1. well, well curb

井(せい) • (Sei) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Well (Chinese constellation)

   Hypernyms: 朱雀, 二十八宿

• “井”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

From Middle Chinese 井 (MC tsjengX). Recorded as Middle Korean 져ᇰ〯 (cyěng) (Yale: cyeng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

井 (eumhun 우물 정 (umul jeong))

1. hanja form^? of 정 (“well (a hole sunk into the ground)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

井: Hán Nôm readings: tỉnh

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