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Translingual

Han character

(radical 80 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人田卜戈 (OWYI), four-corner 80507, composition𠂉)

  1. often, frequently
  2. every time
  3. every, each
  4. flourishing

Derived characters

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 589, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16725
  • Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2381, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6BCF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
*mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
*hmlɯːʔ
*ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
*mɯ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
*mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
*mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
*mrɯŋʔ
*mrɯŋʔ
*ma
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯːʔ
*mɯːs
*mɯːs, *hmɯːs
*hmɯːs
*hmɯːs
*hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
*mrɯl

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (42) (42)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muʌiX/ /muʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/muoiX/ /muoiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/muɒiX/ /muɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwəjX/ /mwəjH/
Li
Rong
/muᴀiX/ /muᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/muɒiX/ /muɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muɑ̆iX/ /muɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
měi mèi
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
měi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwojX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤəʔ/
English each

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. 9307
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯːʔ/

Definitions

  1. every
       měi   every day; daily
       měi   every time

References


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. every
  2. each

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. always
  2. every time

Vietnamese

Han character

(mỗi, mọi, mủi)

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