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U+6627, 昧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6627

[U+6626]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6628]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 72, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日十木 (AJD), four-corner 65090, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13846
  • Dae Jaweon: page 857, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1497, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6627

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Pronunciation 1[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter mwojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/muoiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/muɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwəjH/
Li
Rong
/muᴀiH/
Wang
Li
/muɒiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mui6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mèi
Middle
Chinese
‹ mwojH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁ[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
Reading # 1/1
No. 12913
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯːds/

Definitions[edit]

  1. ignorant; stupid; foolish
  2. to hide away; to conceal
  3. (literary) dark; gloomy
  4. (literary) to venture; to risk
  5. to violate
  6. to covet; to be greedy for
  7. An ancient type of music in eastern tribes in ancient China.
  8. A star.

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Proto-Tai: *mɯːtᴰ

Pronunciation 2[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. to cut; to sever

Pronunciation 3[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. Used in person's names.

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark
  2. foolish

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(mae) (hangeul , revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: muội, mội

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