嘪

See also: 𪡃

Translingual

Han character

嘪 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 口田中金 (RWLC), four-corner 6608₆, composition ⿰口買)

Related characters

• 𪡃 (nonstandard simplified form)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 206, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4236
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 683, character 13
• Unihan data for U+562A

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Chinese

trad.		嘪
simp.		𪡃

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
買	*mreːʔ
蕒	*mreːʔ
嘪	*mreːʔ
鷶	*mreːʔ
賣	*mreːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːʔ) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 買 (OC *mreːʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎi (mai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎi
    • Wade–Giles: mai³
    • Yale: mǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mae
    • Palladius: май (maj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maai⁵
    • Yale: máaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: meaX

Rime
Character	嘪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	佳 (31)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫蟹切
Baxter	meaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæX/
Shao Rongfen	/mæiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjX/
Li Rong	/mɛX/
Wang Li	/maiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/maiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǎi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maai5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嘪
Reading #	1/1
No.	8729
Phonetic component	買
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	買
Old Chinese	/*mreːʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嘪

1. ^† (onomatopoeia) sound of a goat bleating

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), C01426

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Japanese

Kanji

嘪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ばい (bai); め (me)

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 048630

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 嘪 (MC meaX).

Hanja

嘪 (eumhun 양의 소리 매 (yang'ui sori mae))

1. (literary) Hanja form^? of 매 (“sound made by a goat”).

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]