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宀

宀

宀 U+5B80, 宀
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B80
← 孿
[U+5B7F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 宁 →
[U+5B81]
See also: 冖 and 亠

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

宀 (radical 40 宀+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 戈月 (IB) or X戈月 (XIB))

  1. roof
  2. Kangxi radical #40, ⼧ ‎(“roof”).

References

  • KangXi: page 281, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7054
  • Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 909, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+5B80

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 宀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宀
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 宀
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武延切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /miᴇn/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miɛn/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mjæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mian/
Li
Rong		 /miɛn/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛn/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mián
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mián
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjien ›
Old
Chinese		 /*me[ŋ]/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English house, building

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 宀
Reading # 1/1
No. 9028
Phonetic
component		 宀
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 緜
Old
Chinese		 /*men/

Definitions

宀

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References

Japanese

Kanji

宀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

宀 • ‎(myeon)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 면 (revised: myeon, McCune-Reischauer: myŏn, Yale: myen)
  • Name (hangeul): 집 (revised: jip)
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Vietnamese

Han character

宀 (miên)

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References

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