乜

Translingual

Han character

乜 (radical 5 乙+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 心弓 (PN), 心尸 (PS), X心弓 (XPN), four-corner 4771₂)

1. squint
2. (Cantonese) what? huh? (interrogative words)
3. a surname, listed 126th in the Baijiaxing

References

• KangXi: page 83, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 166
• Dae Jaweon: page 168, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 49, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4E5C

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		乜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miē, niè (mie¹, nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ, ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mat¹, me¹, me², me⁵, mi¹, ne⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: miē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
    • Wade-Giles: mieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
    • IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: nieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nieh
    • IPA ^(key): /ni̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat¹, me¹, me², me⁵, mi¹, ne⁶
    • Yale: māt, mē, mé, méh, mī, neh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁷, me¹, me², me⁵, mi¹, ne⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚⁵/, /mɛː⁵⁵/, /mɛː³⁵/, /mɛː¹³/, /miː⁵⁵/, /nɛː²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (乜, reconstructed)
Character (乜), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 麻 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 彌也切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/miaX/	/mi̯aX/	/miaX/	/miaX/	/miaX/	/mĭaX/	/miaX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (乜, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
乜					9114					乜					魚					0					乜					/*mjaːʔ/

Definitions

1. (Cantonese) what? huh?
2. (Cantonese) everything

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Japanese

Kanji

乜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ば (ba), め (me)
• Kun: やぶにらみ (yabunirami)

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Korean

Hanja

乜 (mya) (hangeul 먀, revised mya, McCune-Reischauer mya)

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: mã, niết, niệt, khiết, mễ
• Nôm: khiết, mã

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References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)
• Nom Foundation