脈

See also 脉

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 脉

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic ⺼ (“body”) + phonetic 𠂢

Han character

脈 (radical 130 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹女 (BHHV), four-corner 7223₂)

1. blood vessels, veins, arteries

References

• KangXi: page 982, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29470
• Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2068, character 9
• Unihan data for U+8108

---

Cantonese

Hanzi

脈 (simplified 脉, Yale mak6)

---

Japanese

Noun

脈 (hiragana みゃく, romaji myaku)

1. pulse

Kanji

脈 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: みゃく (myaku), ばく (baku)
• Kun: すじ (suji)

---

Korean

Hanja

脈 (hangeul 맥, revised maek, McCune-Reischauer maek, Yale mayk)

---

Mandarin

Hanzi

脈 (simplified 脉, pinyin mài (mai4), mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mai⁴, mo⁴)

---

Vietnamese

Han character

脈 (mạch)