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微

微

See also: 徵 and 徴

Translingual

Han character

微 (radical 60 彳+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 竹人山弓大 (HOUNK) or 竹人山山大 (HOUUK), four-corner 28240, composition ⿰彳𢼸)

  1. small, tiny, trifling
  2. the number 10-6; the SI unit prefix micro-

Antonyms

Derived characters

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 370, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10203
  • Dae Jaweon: page 696, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 837, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5FAE

See also

  • Chinese Numeral 微

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 微

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (微) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
矀 *mrɯl, *mɯl
覹 *mrɯl
黴 *mrɯl, *mɯːls
薇 *mrɯl, *mɯl
媺 *mrɯlʔ
微 *mɯl
溦 *mɯl
癓 *mɯl
徽 *hmɯl
幑 *hmɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯl) : semantic 彳 + phonetic 𢼸.

Graphically 彳 + 山 + 兀 + 攵.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 微
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 無非切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mʉi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mʷɨi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuəi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /muj/
Li
Rong		 /miuəi/
Wang
Li		 /mĭwəi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mwe̯i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wéi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 微
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wēi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjɨj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*məj/
English small

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 微
Reading # 1/1
No. 12801
Phonetic
component		 微
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 微
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯl/

Definitions

微

  1. (metric units) micro-
  2. slight, gentle
  3. tiny, microscopic

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

微

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. delicate

Readings

Korean

Hanja

微 • ‎(mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

微 (vi)

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