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梅

梅

See also: 楳 and 槑

Translingual

Han character

梅 (radical 75 木+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 木人田卜 (DOWY), four-corner 48957, composition ⿰木毎)

References

  • KangXi: page 528, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14795
  • Dae Jaweon: page 916, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1215, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+6885

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 梅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脢 *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴 *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海 *hmlɯːʔ
毐 *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣 *mɯ
拇 *mɯʔ
母 *mɯʔ
胟 *mɯʔ
姆 *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮 *mɯʔ
踇 *mɯʔ
苺 *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓 *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏 *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵 *mrɯŋʔ
慜 *mrɯŋʔ
毋 *ma
梅 *mɯː
酶 *mɯː
鋂 *mɯː
每 *mɯːʔ
毎 *mɯːs
痗 *mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦 *hmɯːs
誨 *hmɯːs
悔 *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉 *mrɯl

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 梅
Mandarin Beijing /mei³⁵/
Harbin /mei²⁴/
Tianjin /mei⁴⁵/
Jinan /mei⁴²/
Qingdao /me⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mei⁴²/
Xi'an /mei²⁴/
Xining /mɨ²⁴/
Yinchuan /mei⁵³/
Lanzhou /mei⁵³/
Ürümqi /mei⁵¹/
Wuhan /mei²¹³/
Chengdu /mei³¹/
Guiyang /mei²¹/
Kunming /mei³¹/
Nanjing /məi²⁴/
Hefei /me⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /mei¹¹/
Pingyao /mæ¹³/
Hohhot /mei³¹/
Wu Shanghai /me²³/
Suzhou /me̞¹³/
Hangzhou /mei²¹³/
Wenzhou /mai³¹/
Hui Shexian /mɛ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /mə⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /mei¹³/
Xiangtan /məi¹²/
Gan Nanchang /mi⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /moi¹¹/
Taoyuan /moi¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mui²¹/
Nanning /mui²¹/
Hong Kong /mui²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /mui³⁵/
/m³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /muoi⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mo³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /bue⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vue³¹/
Rime
Character 梅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫杯切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muʌi/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muoi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwəj/
Li
Rong		 /muᴀi/
Wang
Li		 /muɒi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 梅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mwoj ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤə/
English plum tree

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 梅
Reading # 1/1
No. 9302
Phonetic
component		 母
Rime
group		 之
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 枚
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯː/

Definitions

梅

  1. plum, apricot
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

梅

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
梅
うめ
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

梅 ‎(hiragana うめ, katakana ウメ, romaji ume)

  1. a Japanese plum or Japanese apricot, Prunus mume
  2. the lowest of a 3 level rank system

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana in biological contexts, as ウメ.

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

Proper noun

梅 ‎(hiragana うめ, romaji Ume)

  1. A female given name.

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

梅 (mai)

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Compounds

  • ngày mai (tomorrow)
  • mai sau (in the future)
Adjective

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