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Translingual

Japanese stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

(radical 123 +3, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿土大 (TGK), four-corner 80431, composition𦍌)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 951, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28435
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3126, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7F8E

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mriʔ
*mriʔ
*mriʔ

Ideogram (指事) :  (goat, sheep) +  (person) – a person with a headdress of feathers or ram's horn.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (17)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiɪX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjiX/
Li
Rong
/mjiX/
Wang
Li
/miX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
měi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mijX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]rəjʔ/
English beautiful

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. 8951
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mriʔ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. beautiful; pretty; attractive; good-looking
       měirén   beautiful woman
  2. delicious; tasty; flavoursome
       měishí   culinary delicacy
  3. good; fine; satisfactory; happy
  4. to beautify; to prettify
  5. to praise; to commend
  6. (dialectal) to be pleased with oneself
  7. beautiful things; beauty
  8. Short for 美洲 (Měizhōu, “America (continent)”).
  9. Short for 美國美国 (Měiguó, “United States of America”).
  10. A surname. Mei

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Suffix

(hiragana , romaji -mi)

  1. suffix used by female given names, such as 奈美(なみ, Nami), 恵美(えみ, Emi; めぐみ, Megumi), 宏美(ひろみ, Hiromi)
  2. (rare) suffix used by male given names

Readings

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. the USA, the Americas (in compounds, in news media)
  2. beautiful

Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

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