未

See also: 末, 禾, and 耒

§Translingual

Stroke order

§Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – the tip of a tree (木), still immature. Contrast 末.

§Han character

未 (radical 75 木+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 十木 (JD), four-corner 5090₀)

1. not yet
2. eighth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): goat (羊) of Chinese zodiac

§Antonyms

• 末

§Derived characters

• 味 妹 昧 魅

§Related characters

• 木 末

§References

• KangXi: page 509, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14419
• Dae Jaweon: page 890, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1150, character 1
• Unihan data for U+672A

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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		未

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wèi (wei⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): boē / bē / bī

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wei⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wey
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁶
    • Yale: meih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mei̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boē / bē / bī
    • Tâi-lô: boē / bē / bī
    • IPA (Taipei): /bue³³/, /be³³/, /bi³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bue²²/, /be²²/, /bi²²/
  • Note: boē, bē - vernacular, bī - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (未, reconstructed)
Character (未), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 微 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 無沸切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mʉiH/	/mwe̯iH/	/miuəiH/	/mʷɨiH/	/mujH/	/mĭwəiH/	/miuəiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (未, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
未								wèi								‹ mjɨjH ›								/*m[ə]t-s/								not yet
未								wèi								‹ mjɨjH ›								/*m[ə]t-s/								8th earthly branch
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
未					12917					未					隊					1					未					/*mɯds/					從屮從木與芔字同根，陳獨秀雲木上加屮象幼枝

§Compounds

• 未必
• 未必然
• 未便
• 未卜
• 未卜先知
• 未曾
• 未尝
• 未成年
• 未敢苟同
• 未婚
• 未婚夫
• 未婚妻
• 未及
• 未几
• 未尽
• 未竟
• 未决
• 未可厚非
• 未来
• 未来学
• 未老先衰
• 未了
• 未免
• 未能
• 未能免俗
• 未然
• 未始
• 未遂
• 未妥
• 未亡人
• 未为不可
• 未暇
• 未详
• 未雨绸缪
• 未知
• 未知数
• 未置可否

§References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典

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§Japanese

§Kanji

未

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

§Readings

• Goon: み (mi)
• Kan’on: び (bi)
• Kun: いまだ (imada), ひつじ (hitsuji)

§Compounds

• 未開
• 未完
• 未婚
• 未熟
• 未遂
• 未成年
• 未然
• 未然形
• 未曾有
• 未知

• 未知数
• 未定
• 未踏
• 未納
• 未必の故意
• 未亡人
• 未満
• 未来
• 未了

§Noun

未 (hiragana ひつじ, romaji hitsuji)

1. (astrology) eighth sign of the Chinese zodiac, the goat

§Prefix

未 (hiragana み, romaji mi-)

1. un-, not yet

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§Korean

§Hanja

未 (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

未 (vị, mùi)

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