尾

Translingual

Han character

尾 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 7721₄, composition ⿸尸毛)

1. tail, extremity
2. end, stern

References

• KangXi: page 300, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 966, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5C3E

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		尾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěi (wei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): mî
• Min Nan (POJ): bóe / bé

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wěi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˇ
    • Wade-Giles: wei³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woei
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯eɪ̯²¹⁴/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁵
    • Yale: méih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mî
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /mi²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóe / bé
    • Tâi-lô: bué / bé
    • IPA (Taipei): /bue⁴¹/, /be⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bue⁵³/, /be⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (尾, reconstructed)
Character (尾), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 微 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 無匪切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mʉiX/	/mwe̯iX/	/miuəiX/	/mʷɨiX/	/mujX/	/mĭwəiX/	/miuəiX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (尾, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
尾								wěi								‹ mjɨjX ›								/*[m]əjʔ/								tail
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
尾					12882					尾					微					1					尾					/*mɯlʔ/

Compounds

• 尾巴 (wěibā)

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Japanese

Kanji

尾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: み (mi)
• Kan’on: び (bi)
• Kun: お (o)

Compounds

• 尻尾 (しっぽ) (shippo, “tail”)

Etymology

/wo/ → /o/.

Noun

尾 (hiragana お, romaji o, historical hiragana を)

1. a tail
2. the foot of a mountain
3. the end of something

Derived terms

• 尾 (お)ろ (oro)
• 尻尾 (しっぽ) (shippo)

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Korean

Hanja

尾 (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

尾 (vĩ, vãi, vả, vã, vải, hoàn)

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