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Translingual

Han character

(radical 119 +11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈金火木 (ICFD) or 戈木火木 (IDFD), four-corner 00294, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 912, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27097
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3159, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7CDC

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miː, *miːs
*miː
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*me
*me
*mral
*meʔ
*meʔ
*mril
*mril
*mril

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mral) : phonetic  (OC *mraːl) + semantic .

Pronunciation 1



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/mje/
Wang
Li
/mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mral/

Definitions

  1. mushy; rotten
    /    làn   rotten
  2. to waste; to spend extravagantly
    /    fèi   to waste
  3. to damage
  4. A surname.

Pronunciation 2



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/mje/
Wang
Li
/mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mral/

Definitions

  1. (chiefly Min) congee
  2. congee-like substance; viscous substance; paste
       ròu   meat paste
       shí   chyme
    / [Min Nan]   thô͘-môe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]   mud

See also

  • (congee): (zhōu)

Pronunciation 3



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/mje/
Wang
Li
/mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mral/

Definitions

  1. millet

Compounds

  • 乳糜 (rǔmí)
  • 侈糜
  • 口糜
  • 淖糜
  • 灰軀糜骨灰躯糜骨
  • 碎首糜軀碎首糜躯
  • 糜子
  • 糜擲糜掷
  • 糜爛糜烂 (mílàn)
  • 糜糜之音
  • 糜費糜费
  • 糜軀碎首糜躯碎首
  • 糠糜
  • 菽糜
  • 虛糜虚糜

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mi)

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