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霾

霾

Translingual

Han character

霾 (radical 173 雨+14, 22 strokes, cangjie input 一月月竹土 (MBBHG), four-corner 10214)

References

  • KangXi: page 1379, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42507
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1889, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4081, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+973E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 霾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
埋 *mrɯː
霾 *mrɯː
薶 *mrɯː
榸 *ʔr'ɯː
厘 *rɯ
狸 *rɯ
貍 *p·rɯ
梩 *rɯ
艃 *rɯ
里 *rɯʔ
理 *rɯʔ
鯉 *rɯʔ
俚 *rɯʔ
悝 *rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌 *rɯʔ
裏 *rɯʔ
荲 *r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯː) : semantic 雨 + phonetic 貍 ‎(OC *p·rɯ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 霾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 皆 (33)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠɛi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚæi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɐi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məɨj/
Li
Rong		 /mɛi/
Wang
Li		 /mɐi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /măi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mái
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 霾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mái
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mɛj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤrə/
English whirlwind

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 霾
Reading # 1/1
No. 7818
Phonetic
component		 里
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 埋
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯː/

Definitions

霾

  1. misty; foggy
  2. dust storm

Compounds

  • 霾晦
  • 風霾／风霾

References

Japanese

Kanji

霾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

  • On: ばい (bai)
  • Kun: つちふる (tsuchifuru), つちぐもり (tsuchigumori)

Korean

Hanja

霾 • ‎(mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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