蛾眉

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Chinese

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moth eyebrow; upper margin
simp. and trad.
(蛾眉)
alternative forms 娥眉

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (31) (4)
Final () (94) (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter nga mij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɑ/ /mˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋɑ/ /mᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɑ/ /miɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋa/ /mji/
Li
Rong
/ŋɑ/ /mji/
Wang
Li
/ŋɑ/ /mi/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋɑ/ /mi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
é
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ngo4 mei4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
é méi
Middle
Chinese
‹ nga › ‹ mij ›
Old
Chinese
/*ŋˁaj/ /*mr[ə][r]/
English silkworm moth [Bombyx] eyebrow

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
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 13036 8938
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːl/ /*mril/
Notes

Noun

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蛾眉

  1. (literary) woman's long and slender eyebrows (resembling the feathery feelers of a moth)
  2. (literary, metonymically) beautiful woman

Derived terms

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