昧

See also: 味

Translingual

Han character

昧 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日十木 (AJD), four-corner 6509₀, composition ⿰日未)

1. obscure, dark
2. darken

References

• KangXi: page 493, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13846
• Dae Jaweon: page 857, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1497, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6627

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		昧

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
    • IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁶
    • Yale: muih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /mɑi^H/, /muʌi^H/▼

Rime
Character	昧	昧
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	泰 (25)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫貝切	莫佩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɑiH/	/muʌiH/
Pan Wuyun	/mɑiH/	/muoiH/
Shao Rongfen	/mɑiH/	/muɒiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/majH/	/mwəjH/
Li Rong	/mɑiH/	/muᴀiH/
Wang Li	/mɑiH/	/muɒiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɑiH/	/muɑ̆iH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mèi	mèi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤ[u][t]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːds/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	昧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèi
Middle Chinese	‹ mwojH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤ[u][t]-s/
English	dusk; dark
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	昧
Reading #	1/1
No.	12913
Phonetic component	未
Rime group	隊
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	妹
Old Chinese	/*mɯːds/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

昧

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. dark
2. foolish

Readings

• Goon: まい (mai)
• Kan’on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: くらい (昧い, kurai), むさぼる (昧る, musaboru)

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Korean

Hanja

昧 • ‎(mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昧 (muội, mội)

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