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)

1. Kangxi radical #108, ⽫.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/皿

See also

• 血 罒

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
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
猛	mraːŋʔ
艋	mraːŋʔ
蜢	mraːŋʔ
皿	maŋʔ
孟	mraːŋs

Pictogram (象形).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐn, mǐng (min³, ming³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ, ㄇㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mén
• Min Nan (POJ): béng / bín

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • 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.

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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

Compounds

• 器皿 (qìmǐn)

• 培養皿／培养皿 (péiyǎngmǐn)

• 美耐皿

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 皿 – see 四. (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

• Hán Việt: mãnh, mảng, mảnh, mịn

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