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眄

眄

Translingual

Han character

眄 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山一中尸 (BUMLS), four-corner 6102₇, composition ⿰目丏)

to look askance
looking dull

References

KangXi: page 802, character 12

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23182

Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 14

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2472, character 4

Unihan data for U+7704

Chinese

simp. and trad.		眄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (丏) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
汅	*menʔ
沔	*menʔ
丏	*meːnʔ
眄	meːnʔ, meːns
麪	*meːns

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): miǎn (mian³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵, min⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: miǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
  - Wade-Giles: mien³
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: min⁵, min⁶
  - Yale: míhn, mihn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵, min⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/, /miːn²²/

Middle Chinese: /men^X/, /men^H/▼

Rime
Character	眄	眄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	彌殄切	莫甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/men^X/	/men^H/
Pan Wuyun	/men^X/	/men^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛn^X/	/mɛn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛn^X/	/mɛn^H/
Li Rong	/men^X/	/men^H/
Wang Li	/mien^X/	/mien^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/mien^X/	/mien^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn	miàn

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤe[n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*meːnʔ/, /*meːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	眄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ men^X ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤe[n]ʔ/
English	look askance
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	眄	眄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9061	9063
Phonetic component	丏	丏
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	㨠	麫
Old Chinese	/*meːnʔ/	/*meːns/

Definitions

眄

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Compounds

凝眄
恩眄
流眄
渥眄

眄眄
眄睞／眄睐
眄睨

睇眄
美眄
顧眄／顾眄

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

眄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On: べん (ben), めん (men)

Kun: ながしめ (nagashime), みる (miru), かえりみる (kaerimiru)

Korean

Hanja

眄 • ‎(myeon) (hangeul 면, revised myeon, McCune-Reischauer myŏn, Yale myen)

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