毐

Translingual

Han character

毐 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土田十 (GWJ) or 土田十竹 (GWJH), four-corner 4055₇, composition ⿱士毋)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 589, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16727
• Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2382, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BD0

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		毐

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 士 (“virtuous man”) + 毋 (“to not have”) – person with no morals.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ǎi (ai³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): oi² / aai²
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ai³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ǎi
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ǎi
    • Wade–Giles: ai³
    • Yale: ǎi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ae
    • Palladius: ай (aj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: oi² / aai²
    • Yale: ói / áai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: oi² / aai²
    • Guangdong Romanization: oi² / ai²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯³⁵/, /aːi̯³⁵/

Note: aai2 - variant.

• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: ai³
    • Sinological IPA: /aɪ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'oj, 'ojX

Rime
Character	毐	毐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏開切	於改切
Baxter	'oj	'ojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʌi/	/ʔʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəi/	/ʔəiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒi/	/ʔɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəj/	/ʔəjX/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀi/	/ʔᴀiX/
Wang Li	/ɒi/	/ɒiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔɑ̆i/	/ʔɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	āi	ǎi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	oi1	oi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔmɯː/, /*ʔmɯːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毐	毐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9284	9285
Phonetic component	母	母
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	哀	欸
Old Chinese	/*ʔmɯː/	/*ʔmɯːʔ/
Notes	𢮇讀莫亥切

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 毐

1. ^† person of reprehensible morals (usually used in names)

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01973
• “毐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–