瀰

See also: 彌 and 弥

Translingual

Han character

瀰 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 水弓一月 (ENMB), four-corner 3112₇, composition ⿰氵彌)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 660, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18690
• Dae Jaweon: page 1070, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1791, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7030

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Chinese

trad.		瀰
simp.		弥*

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mí, mǐ (mi², mi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ, ㄇㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵ / nei⁴ / mei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí / bî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mí
    • Wade–Giles: mi²
    • Yale: mí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mi
    • Palladius: ми (mi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
    • Wade–Giles: mi³
    • Yale: mǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
    • Palladius: ми (mi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mei⁵ / nei⁴ / mei⁴
    • Yale: méih / nèih / mèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵ / nei⁴ / mei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵ / néi⁴ / méi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³/, /nei̯²¹/, /mei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí / bî
    • Tâi-lô: bí / bî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bie, bii
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³/, /bi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴/, /bi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/, /bi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³/, /bi²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹/, /bi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: mjie, mjieX

Rime
Character	瀰	瀰
Reading #	1/3	2/3
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	武移切	綿婢切
Baxter	mjie	mjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇ/	/miᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛ/	/miɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛ/	/mjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆/	/miə̆X/
Li Rong	/mie/	/mieX/
Wang Li	/mǐe/	/mǐeX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mie̯/	/mie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mí	mǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei4	mei5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.ner/, /*m.nˤerʔ/, /*m.nerʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mnel/, /*mnelʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瀰	瀰	瀰
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mí	mǐ	mǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ mjie ›	‹ mejX ›	‹ mjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*m.ner/	/*m.nˁerʔ/	/*m.nerʔ/
English	richly flowing stream	a rich and full flow (of a river)	richly flowing stream
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	瀰	瀰
Reading #	2/3	3/3
No.	2807	2812
Phonetic component	爾	爾
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	彌	渳
Old Chinese	/*mnel/	/*mnelʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瀰

1. full

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ní (ni²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ní
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ní
    • Wade–Giles: ni²
    • Yale: ní
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
    • Palladius: ни (ni)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: nejX

Rime
Character	瀰
Reading #	3/3
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	奴禮切
Baxter	nejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/neiX/
Pan Wuyun	/neiX/
Shao Rongfen	/nɛiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nɛjX/
Li Rong	/neiX/
Wang Li	/nieiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/nieiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nai5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*niːlʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瀰
Reading #	1/3
No.	2804
Phonetic component	爾
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	禰
Old Chinese	/*niːlʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瀰

1. flow

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Japanese

Kanji

瀰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): び (bi); み (mi)
• Kun: ながれる (nagareru); ながれ (nagare)

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Korean

Hanja

瀰 (eum 미 (mi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

瀰: Hán Nôm readings: di

1. full