旻

旻 U+65FB, 旻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65FB ← 旺 [U+65FA] CJK Unified Ideographs 旼 → [U+65FC]

Translingual

Han character

旻 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日卜大 (AYK), four-corner 6040₀, composition ⿱日文)

1. heaven

Derived characters

• 𡹋, 𫹗, 㥗, 渂, 𭪟, 𪸻, 琝, 𰼸, 閺

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 490, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13775
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1495, character 6
• Unihan data for U+65FB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		旻

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
旻	*mrɯn
旼	*mrɯn
汶	*mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
忞	*mrɯn
盿	*mrɯn
枚	*mɯːl
玫	*mɯːl
玟	*mɯːl
文	*mɯn
紋	*mɯn
蚊	*mɯn
雯	*mɯn
彣	*mɯn
馼	*mɯn
鳼	*mɯn
鼤	*mɯn, *mɯns
抆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯns
紊	*mɯns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mín (min²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mín
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mín
    • Wade–Giles: min²
    • Yale: mín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
    • Palladius: минь (minʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴
    • Yale: màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/

---

• Middle Chinese: min

Rime
Character	旻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武巾切
Baxter	min
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/mien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin/
Li Rong	/mjĕn/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mrə[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mín
Middle Chinese	‹ min ›
Old Chinese	/*mrə[n]/
English	austere, severe
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	旻
Reading #	1/1
No.	13007
Phonetic component	文
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrɯn/

Definitions

旻

1. (literary) the sky; Heaven

Compounds

• 召旻
• 小旻
• 旻天 (míntiān)
• 旻寧／旻宁
• 旻序 (mínxù)
• 蒼旻／苍旻 (cāngmín)

 

Japanese

Kanji

旻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. the autumn sky

Readings

• Go-on: みん (min)
• Kan-on: びん (bin)
• Kun: あきら (akira); あきぞら (akizora)
• Nanori: あきら (akira); ひ (hi)

Korean

Hanja

旻 (eum 민 (min))

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

旻: Hán Nôm readings: mân

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation