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糜

糜

Translingual

Han character

糜 (radical 119 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈金火木 (ICFD) or 戈木火木 (IDFD), four-corner 00294, composition ⿸麻米)

References

  • KangXi: page 912, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27097
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3159, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7CDC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 糜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謎 *miː, *miːs
迷 *miː
米 *miːʔ
眯 *miːʔ
洣 *miːʔ
蔝 *miːʔ
麊 *me
冞 *me
糜 *mral
敉 *meʔ
侎 *meʔ
麋 *mril
蘪 *mril
攗 *mril

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mral) : phonetic 麻 ‎(OC *mraːl) + semantic 米.

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 靡爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /mje/
Wang
Li		 /mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 糜
Reading # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component		 米
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 糜
Old
Chinese		 /*mral/

Definitions

糜

  1. mushy; rotten
    糜爛 / 糜烂  ―  mílàn  ―  rotten
  2. to waste; to spend extravagantly
    糜費 / 糜费  ―  mífèi  ―  to waste
  3. to damage
  4. A surname​.

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 靡爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /mje/
Wang
Li		 /mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 糜
Reading # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component		 米
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 糜
Old
Chinese		 /*mral/

Definitions

糜

  1. (chiefly Min) congee
  2. congee-like substance; viscous substance; paste
    肉糜  ―  ròumí  ―  meat paste
    食糜  ―  shímí  ―  chyme
    塗糜 / 涂糜 [Min Nan]  ―  thô͘-môe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  mud

See also

  • (congee): 粥 (zhōu)

Pronunciation 3

Rime
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) Chongniu III
Fanqie 靡爲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjiə̆/
Li
Rong		 /mje/
Wang
Li		 /mǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mí
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糜
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mí
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mje ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.m(r)aj/
English rice gruel; destroy, crush

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 糜
Reading # 1/1
No. 9010
Phonetic
component		 米
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 糜
Old
Chinese		 /*mral/

Definitions

糜

  1. millet

Compounds

  • 乳糜 (rǔmí)
  • 侈糜
  • 口糜
  • 淖糜
  • 灰軀糜骨／灰躯糜骨
  • 碎首糜軀／碎首糜躯
  • 糜子
  • 糜擲／糜掷
  • 糜爛／糜烂 (mílàn)
  • 糜糜之音
  • 糜費／糜费
  • 糜軀碎首／糜躯碎首
  • 糠糜
  • 菽糜
  • 虛糜／虚糜

Japanese

Kanji

糜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

糜 • ‎(mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

糜 (mi)

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