麋

Translingual

Han character

麋 (radical 198 鹿+6, 17 strokes, cangjie input 戈心火木 (IPFD), four-corner 0060₁)

1. elk
2. used as a surname

References

• KangXi: page 1509, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47625
• Dae Jaweon: page 2037, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4730, character 18
• Unihan data for U+9E8B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

麋 (Yale mei4)

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Japanese

Kanji

麋 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: び (bi)
• Kun: おおじか (ōjika), なれしか (nareshika)

Etymology

Compound of 大 (ō, “big”) +‎ 鹿 (shika, “deer”). The shika changes to jika due to rendaku (連濁).

Noun

麋 (hiragana おおじか, romaji ōjika)

1. a big deer
2. moose, elk, reindeer

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

麋 (pinyin mí (mi2), Wade-Giles mi²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

麋 (mi, mê)