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U+4EB9, 亹
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EB9

[U+4EB8]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4EBA]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 8 +19, 21 strokes, cangjie input 卜竹月一 (YHBM), four-corner 00107, composition)

  1. to progress
  2. busy, untiring
  3. exert

References


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character


References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*hmrɯns
*hmrɯns
*mɯlʔ, *mɯːn
*mɯlʔ
*mɯːn
*mɯns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (55) (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muən/ /mʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/muon/ /mʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/muən/ /miuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwən/ /mujX/
Li
Rong
/muən/ /miuəiX/
Wang
Li
/muən/ /mĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muən/ /mwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mén wěi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mén wěi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwon › ‹ mjɨjX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤər/ /*mərʔ/
English river-gorge diligent

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 13853 13856
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯlʔ/ /*mɯːn/

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. busy, untiring
  2. to exert, to progress

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(mi, mun) (hangeul , , revised mi, mun, McCune-Reischauer mi, mun)

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