櫗

櫗 U+6AD7, 櫗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AD7 ← 櫖 [U+6AD6] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫘 → [U+6AD8]

Translingual

Han character

櫗 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+15, 19 strokes, cangjie input 木廿田戈 (DTWI) or 難木廿田戈 (XDTWI), composition ⿰木蔑)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 560, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15806
• Dae Jaweon: page 949, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1312, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6AD7

Chinese

simp. and trad.		櫗

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miè
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miè
    • Wade–Giles: mieh⁴
    • Yale: myè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
    • Palladius: ме (me)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mit⁶
    • Yale: miht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mid⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/

Definitions

櫗

1. (archaic) ancient Chinese torture instrument. "Wood" refers to "three woods", and "rope" refers to the rope used to arrest and restrain prisoners

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mèi
    • Wade–Giles: mei⁴
    • Yale: mèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
    • Palladius: мэй (mɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/

Definitions

櫗

1. (Only used in 櫗楔.) tiny
2. (Only used in 櫗楔.) wedge (of wood)

Vietnamese

Han character

櫗: Hán Việt readings: miết
櫗: Nôm readings: mịt, miệt, mít

Noun

櫗

1. jack fruit

References

• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)