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魅

魅

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (未) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寐 *mids
魅 *mrɯds
鬽 *mrɯds
昧 *mɯːds
妹 *mɯːds
眛 *maːds, *mɯːds
沬 *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
未 *mɯds
味 *mɯds
鮇 *mɯds
菋 *mɯds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯds) : phonetic 未 ‎(OC *mɯds) + semantic 鬼 ‎(“spirit”).

Han character

魅 (radical 194 鬼+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹戈十木 (HIJD), four-corner 25219, composition ⿺鬼未)

References

  • KangXi: page 1461, character 30
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45811
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1995, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4430, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9B45

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 魅

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 魅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 明祕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjiH/
Li
Rong		 /mjiH/
Wang
Li		 /miH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /miH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 魅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mèi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mr[ə][t]-s/
English 魑魅 trhje.mijH a kind of demon

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 魅
Reading # 1/1
No. 12911
Phonetic
component		 未
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 郿
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯds/
Notes 說文同鬽

Definitions

魅

  1. a kind of legendary evil spirit
    魑魅 (chīmèi)
    鬼魅
  2. captivate, charm
    魅力 (mèilì)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

魅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

魅 (mị)

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