每

See also: 毎

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese	毎
Simplified	每
Traditional	每

Han character

每 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人田卜戈 (OWYI), four-corner 8050₇, composition ⿱𠂉母)

Derived characters

• 𠳨, 㙁, 娒, 挴, 𤞦, 晦, 脢, 烸, 𤙩, 珻, 畮, 䀲, 𬑲, 𬒐, 䊈, 䋦(𫄩), 𧋟, 誨(诲), 踇, 酶, 鋂, 䩈, 𩊱, 䱕, 黣, 𠜮, 勄, 𠧩, 䋣, 毓, 緐, 莓, 䍙, 痗, 𫂂, 霉, 𫵾, 𢙽, 𣒫
• 侮, 悔, 海, 梅, 敏 (Note: For all regions except Japan. Japan character form contains 毎 as component for these characters)

Related characters

• 毎 (Japanese shinjitai)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 589, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16725
• Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2381, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BCF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		每

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 每
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
脢	*mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴	*mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海	*hmlɯːʔ
毐	*ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣	*mɯ
拇	*mɯʔ
母	*mɯʔ
胟	*mɯʔ
姆	*mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮	*mɯʔ
踇	*mɯʔ
苺	*mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓	*mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏	*mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵	*mrɯŋʔ
慜	*mrɯŋʔ
毋	*ma
梅	*mɯː
酶	*mɯː
鋂	*mɯː
每	*mɯːʔ
毎	*mɯːs
痗	*mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦	*hmɯːs
誨	*hmɯːs
悔	*hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉	*mrɯl

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯːʔ) : semantic 屮 + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuj (“cardinal number one”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 每

1. ^† lush
2. every; each

   每日  ―  měirì  ―  every day; daily

   每次  ―  měicì  ―  every time

3. every time; each time
4. often; frequently
5. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 們／们 (men, “plural marker”).
6. ^† flourishingly
7. a surname

Further reading

• “Entry #3290”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	毎
Kyūjitai	每

Kanji

每

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 毎)

1. every
2. each

Readings

• On (unclassified): まい (mai); ばい (bai)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 每)

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Korean

Hanja

每 • (mae) (hangeul 매)

1. always
2. every time

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 每 (mỗi, mọi, mủi)

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