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Translingual

Han character

(radical 86 +9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 火廿一木 (FTMD), four-corner 94894, composition)

  1. coal, coke, charcoal, carbon

References

  • KangXi: page 677, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19220
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1088, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2214, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7164

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mɯʔ
*mɯ
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯː

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
méi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤə/
English soot; coal

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. 9278
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯː/
Notes

Noun

  1. coal

Synonyms

Compounds

  • 煤氣鼓煤气鼓

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
すす
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana すす, romaji susu)

  1. soot

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

(mae) (hangeul , revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Okinawan

Kanji

(hiragana しーし, romaji shīshi)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (susu).

Noun

(hiragana しーし, romaji shīshi)

  1. soot

Vietnamese

Han character

(môi, muồi, mai)

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Yonaguni

Kanji

(hiragana ちち, romaji chichi)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (susu).

Noun

(hiragana ちち, romaji chichi)

  1. soot