皿

See also: 血 and 罒

皿 U+76BF, 皿 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76BF ← 皾 [U+76BE] CJK Unified Ideographs 盀 → [U+76C0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

皿 (radical 108, 皿+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT), four-corner 7710₀, composition ⿴𠀃⿰丨丨)

1. Kangxi radical #108, ⽫.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/皿

References

• KangXi: page 792, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22941
• Dae Jaweon: page 1207, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2557, character 1
• Unihan data for U+76BF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		皿

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 皿
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 (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
猛	*mraːŋʔ
艋	*mraːŋʔ
蜢	*mraːŋʔ
皿	*maŋʔ
孟	*mraːŋs

Pictogram (象形) A pictograph of an empty container, such as a chalice. The handles are conjoined in the modern form.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐn, mǐng (min³, ming³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ, ㄇㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mén
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): béng / bín

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mêng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland and Taiwan)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Wade–Giles: min³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
    • IPA ^(key): /min²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˇ
    • Wade–Giles: ming³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miing
    • IPA ^(key): /miŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁵
    • Yale: míhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mén
    • Hakka Romanization System: men`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: men³
    • IPA: /men³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: béng
    • Tâi-lô: bíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: beang
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taipei): /biɪŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bín
    • Tâi-lô: bín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bien
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bin⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bin⁵³/

Note:

• béng - literary;
• bín - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: mêng²
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: méng
  • IPA ^(key): /meŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠiæŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	皿
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武永切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiæŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚiaŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/miaŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miajŋX/
Li Rong	/miɐŋX/
Wang Li	/mĭɐŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɐŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mraŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	皿
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjængX ›
Old Chinese	/*mraŋʔ/
English	vessel, bowl
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	皿
Reading #	1/1
No.	9151
Phonetic component	皿
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	皿
Old Chinese	/*maŋʔ/

Definitions

皿

1. dish; vessel

   培養皿 / 培养皿  ―  péiyǎngmǐn  ―  Petri dish

Usage notes

• As a component of other characters, 皿 can be referred to as 皿字底 (mǐnzìdǐ) or 皿墩兒／皿墩儿 (mǐndūnr).

Compounds

• 北皿
• 南皿
• 器皿 (qìmǐn)
• 培養皿／培养皿 (péiyǎngmǐn)

• 皿卷
• 皿器
• 皿字底 (mǐnzìdǐ)

• 皿金
• 美耐皿
• 金皿

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 皿 – see 四 (“four; la; etc.”). (This character, 皿, is a variant form of 四.)

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Japanese

Kanji

皿

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On (unclassified): べい (bei); みょう (myō)
• Kun: さら (sara, 皿, Jōyō)

Noun

皿 (hiragana さら, rōmaji sara)

1. dish, plate

Alternative forms

• 盤

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Korean

Hanja

皿 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng, Yale myeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

皿 (mãnh, mảng, mảnh, mịn)

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