寐

Translingual

Han character

寐 (Kangxi radical 40, 宀+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 十女一木 (JVMD), four-corner 3029₅, composition ⿱宀⿰爿未)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 289, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7236
• Dae Jaweon: page 572, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 944, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5BD0

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		寐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
寐	*mids
魅	*mrɯds
鬽	*mrɯds
昧	*mɯːds
妹	*mɯːds
眛	*maːds, *mɯːds
沬	*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
未	*mɯds
味	*mɯds
鮇	*mɯds
菋	*mɯds

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mids) : abbreviated semantic 㝱 (“dream”) + phonetic 未 (OC *mɯds).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r/s-mwəj (“to sleep; to dream”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྨི་བ (rmi ba, “to dream”), Tibetan རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam, “dream”), Burmese မွေ့ (mwe., “to enjoy sleep”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bī / mī / bái / bî

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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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mei⁶
    • Yale: meih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī
    • Tâi-lô: bī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bi
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bi³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mī
    • Tâi-lô: mī
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mi
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩ²²/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bái
    • Tâi-lô: bái
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bae
    • IPA (Taipei): /bai⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bai⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî
    • Tâi-lô: bî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bii
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: mjijH

Rime
Character	寐
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌二切
Baxter	mjijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/miH/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miH/
Li Rong	/miH/
Wang Li	/miH/
Bernard Karlgren	/miH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mi[t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mids/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	寐
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèi
Middle Chinese	‹ mjijH ›
Old Chinese	/*mi[t]-s/
English	sleep
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	寐
Reading #	1/1
No.	12910
Phonetic component	未
Rime group	至
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	寐
Old Chinese	/*mids/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 寐

1. (literary) to sleep
2. a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

寐

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi)
• Kun: いぬ (inu, 寐ぬ); ねる (neru, 寐る)

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Korean

Hanja

寐 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 寐 (mị)

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