蔑

Translingual

Han character

蔑 (radical 140 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 4425₃, composition ⿳艹⺫戍)

1. to disdain, disregard, slight

References

• KangXi: page 1054, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781
• Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3279, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8511

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		蔑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: miè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
    • IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mit⁶
    • Yale: miht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蔑, reconstructed)
Character (蔑), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 屑 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫結切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/met̚/	/miet̚/	/met̚/	/met̚/	/mɛt̚/	/miet̚/	/mɛt̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蔑, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蔑								miè								‹ met ›								/*mˤet/								destroy; not have
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
蔑					9116					蔑					月					2					蔑					/*meːd/					金文從伐𥄕聲或眉聲，兼殺滅伐功義
蔑					9118					蔑					月					2					蔑					/*meːd/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

蔑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: べつ (betsu)
• Kun: さげすむ (sagesumu), ないがしろ (naigashiro), ない (nai)

Compounds

• 軽蔑 (けいべつ)

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Korean

Hanja

蔑 (myeol) (hangeul 멸, revised myeol, McCune-Reischauer myŏl, Yale myel)

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