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U+4FDB, 俛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4FDB

[U+4FDA]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+4FDC]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +7, 9 strokes, cangjie input 人弓日山 (ONAU), four-corner 27216, composition)

  1. make effort, endeavor
  2. to lower the head

References

  • KangXi: page 105, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 700
  • Dae Jaweon: page 222, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 164, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+4FDB

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mronʔ
*mronʔ, *mronʔ, *m̥ʰons, *monʔ, *mons, *muns
*mronʔ
*mronʔ
*mronʔ
*mronʔ
*mronʔ, *moːn, *muns
*m̥ʰos
*muːlʔ
*moːn
*moːn
*m̥ʰons
*monʔ
*monʔ
*monʔ, *mons
*monʔ, *mons, *muns
*muns

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (79)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mianX/
Li
Rong
/mjɛnX/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miǎn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjenX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mr[a][n]ʔ/
English bend the head

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. 9069
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mronʔ/
Notes

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Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(myeon) (hangeul , revised myeon, McCune-Reischauer myŏn)

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