未

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See also: 末, 禾, and 耒

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
未-bw.png

Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形) – the tip of a tree (木), still immature. Contrast 末.

Han character[edit]

未 (radical 75 木+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十木 (JD), four-corner 50900)

  1. not yet
  2. eighth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): goat (羊) of Chinese zodiac

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References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 509, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14419
  • Dae Jaweon: page 890, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1150, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+672A

Chinese[edit]

-
simp. and trad.
 未

Pronunciation[edit]

Middle Chinese pronunciation (未, reconstructed)
Character (未), Pronunciation 1/1

Initial: 明 (4)
Final: 微
Division: III

Openness: Closed
Tone: Departing (H)

 Fanqie: 無沸切
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 Bernard
Karlgren		 Li
Rong		 Pan
Wuyun		 Edwin
Pulleyblank		 Wang
Li		 Shao
Rongfen
/mʉiH/ /mwe̯iH/ /miuəiH/ /mʷɨiH/ /mujH/ /mĭwəiH/ /miuəiH/
Old Chinese pronunciation (未, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character Modern Beijing
(Pinyin)		 Middle Chinese Old Chinese English
未 wèi ‹ mjɨjH › /*m[ə]t-s/ not yet
未 wèi ‹ mjɨjH › /*m[ə]t-s/ 8th earthly branch

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
未 12917 未 隊 1 未 /*mɯds/ 從屮從木與芔字同根，陳獨秀雲木上加屮象幼枝

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
未

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Noun[edit]

未 (hiragana ひつじ, romaji hitsuji)

  1. (astrology) eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac, the goat

Prefix[edit]

未 (hiragana み, romaji mi-)

  1. un-, not yet

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

未 (vị, mùi)

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