彌

See also: 弥

Translingual

Han character

彌 (radical 57 弓+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓一火月 (NMFB), four-corner 1122₇, composition ⿰弓爾)

1. extensive, full
2. fill
3. complete

References

• KangXi: page 361, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9877
• Dae Jaweon: page 679, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1004, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5F4C

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Chinese

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trad.		彌
simp.		弥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mí (mi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴, nei⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): mí / nî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mih²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mi
    • IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁴, nei⁴
    • Yale: mèih, nèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴, nei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹/, /nei̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mí / nî
    • Tâi-lô: mí / nî
    • IPA (Taipei): /mi⁴¹/, /ni²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mi⁵³/, /ni¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (彌, reconstructed)
Character (彌), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 支 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 武移切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/miᴇ/	/mie̯/	/mie/	/miɛ/	/miə̆/	/mǐe/	/mjɛ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (彌, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
彌								mí								‹ mjie ›								/*m-nə[r]/								to complete
彌								mí								‹ mjieX ›								/*m-nə[r]ʔ/								stop
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
彌					2808					爾					歌					2					彌					/*mnel/

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

彌

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: び (bi), み (mi), げい (gei)
• Kun: ひさしい (hisashii), わたる (wataru), あまねし (amaneshi), いよいよ (iyoiyo)

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Korean

Hanja

彌 (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

彌 (di)

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