宀

宀 U+5B80, 宀 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5B80 ← 孿 [U+5B7F] CJK Unified Ideographs 宁 → [U+5B81]

See also: 冖 and 亠

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

宀 (radical 40 宀+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 戈月 (IB) or X戈月 (XIB))

1. roof
2. Kangxi radical #40, ⼧ (“roof”).

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/宀

References

• KangXi: page 281, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7054
• Dae Jaweon: page 551, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 909, character 13
• Unihan data for U+5B80

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		宀

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 宀
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mián (mian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): biân / bô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mián
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian
    • IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵/

Note: 寶蓋頭/宝盖头 when used as a component.

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁴
    • Yale: mìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /miːn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biân / bô͘
    • Tâi-lô: biân / bôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bieen, boo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn²⁴/, /bɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn²⁴/, /bɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn¹³/, /bɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɛn²⁴/, /bɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn²³/, /bɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: /miᴇn/▼

Rime
Character	宀
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武延切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇn/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛn/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mian/
Li Rong	/miɛn/
Wang Li	/mĭɛn/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mián

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*me[ŋ]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*men/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	宀
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mián
Middle Chinese	‹ mjien ›
Old Chinese	/*me[ŋ]/ (no pre-Qín exx.)
English	house, building
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	宀
Reading #	1/1
No.	9028
Phonetic component	宀
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	緜
Old Chinese	/*men/

Definitions

宀

1. roof
2. lid of a box/container

References

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

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Japanese

Kanji

宀

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: べん (ben), めん (men)
• Kun: やね (yane), いえ (ie)

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Korean

Hanja

宀 • (myeon)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 면 (revised: myeon, McCune-Reischauer: myŏn, Yale: myen)
  • Name (hangeul): 집 (revised: jip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

宀 (miên)

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References

• Nom Foundation