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尾

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尾 U+5C3E, 尾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3E
← 尽
[U+5C3D]
CJK Unified Ideographs 尿 →
[U+5C3F]

Translingual

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Han character

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尾 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, Cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition ⿸尸毛)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5C3E

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
尾
alternative forms

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 尾
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).

Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of saddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).

Pronunciation

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Note: mei5-1 - "last".
Note: mai5-0 - "last".
Note:
  • buei3 - vernacular;
  • bi3 - literary.
Note:
  • bé/bér/bóe - vernacular;
  • bí - literary.
Note: mai2 - alternative pronunciation for dialectal usage.
    • (Leizhou)
      • Leizhou Pinyin: bhue2 / mi2
      • Sinological IPA: /buɛ³¹/, /mi³¹/
Note:
  • bhue2 - vernacular;
  • mi2 - literary.

Rime
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 無匪切
Baxter mj+jX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mujX/
Li
Rong
/miuəiX/
Wang
Li
/mĭwəiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wěi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mei5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wěi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjɨjX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m]əjʔ/
English tail

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 尾
Reading # 1/1
No. 12882
Phonetic
component
尾
Rime
group
微
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
尾
Old
Chinese
/*mɯlʔ/

Definitions

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尾

  1. tail (Classifier: 條/条 c; 支 mn)
  2. end
  3. last; final
  4. Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
  5. (~宿) (Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

Synonyms

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  • (tail):
  • (classifier):

Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Kanji

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尾

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

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  • Go-on: み (mi)
  • Kan-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
  • Kun: お (o, 尾, Jōyō)←を (wo, 尾, historical)

Etymology 1

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Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
尾
お
Grade: S
kun'yomi

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese 尾 (wo), from Proto-Japonic *bo.[1]

First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE in the senses “tail” and “foot of a mountain”.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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尾(お) • (o) ←を (wo)?

  1. tail
  2. foot of a mountain
  3. end of something
Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
尾
び
Grade: S
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 尾 (MC mj+jX).

Pronunciation

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Affix

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尾(び) • (bi) 

  1. tail
Derived terms
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Counter

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尾(び) • (-bi) 

  1. fish, shrimp

Proper noun

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尾(び) • (Bi) 

  1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail
    Hypernyms: 青竜, 二十八宿
Synonyms
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References

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  1. ^ Samuel E. Martin (1987), The Japanese Language Through Time, New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ “尾”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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尾 (eumhun 꼬리 미 (kkori mi))

  1. hanja form? of 미 (“tail, extremity”)
  2. hanja form? of 미 (“end, stern”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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尾: Hán Việt readings: vĩ[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
尾: Nôm readings: vẻ[1][2][7], vạy[1][2], vấy[1][2], vẽ[1][2], vả[1][3], vãi[1][4], vỉ[1][7], vải[5][7], vẩy[1], vẫy[2], vã[3], vải[3], vía[7], vảy[7]

  1. chữ Hán form of vĩ (“tail; (music) bow”)
  2. chữ Nôm form of vả (“(only in compounds) besides, again”)
  3. chữ Nôm form of vãi (“Buddhist nun”)
  4. chữ Nôm form of vấy (“to stain”)
  5. chữ Nôm form of vẻ
    1. used in vắng vẻ (“quiet; deserted; unfrequented”)
    2. used in vui vẻ (“happy; joyful”)
  6. chữ Nôm form of vẽ (“to draw; to paint”)
  7. chữ Nôm form of vỉ (“trellis matting (used to lag bottom of a double boiler (chõ), usually made of bamboo)”)

References

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