每

See also: 毎 and 毎#Derived characters

Translingual

Han character

每 (radical 80 毋+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人田卜戈 (OWYI), four-corner 8050₇, composition ⿱𠂉母)

1. often, frequently
2. every time
3. every, each
4. flourishing

Derived characters

• 海 (in Chinese form), 晦, 莓, 毓

Descendants

• 毎

References

• KangXi: page 589, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16725
• Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2381, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BCF

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		每

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měi (mei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): mui, mi, múi
• Min Nan (POJ): muí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: měi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mei³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meei
    • IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁵
    • Yale: múih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /muːi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mui, mi, múi
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mui1, mi1, mui3
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: muí
    • Tâi-lô: muí
    • IPA (Taipei): /mui⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mui⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (每, reconstructed)
Character (每), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 灰 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 武罪切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muʌiX/	/muɑ̆iX/	/muᴀiX/	/muoiX/	/mwəjX/	/muɒiX/	/muɒiX/
Character (每), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 灰 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫佩切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muʌiH/	/muɑ̆iH/	/muᴀiH/	/muoiH/	/mwəjH/	/muɒiH/	/muɒiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (每, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
每								měi								‹ mwojX ›								/*mˤəʔ/								each
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
每					9307					母					之					0					浼					/*mɯːʔ/

References

• (Hakka) Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• (Hakka) Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

每

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: まい (mai), ばい (bai)
• Kun: つね (tsune)

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Korean

Hanja

每 (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

1. always
2. every time

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Vietnamese

Han character

每 (mọi, mỗi)

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