麋

麋 U+9E8B, 麋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E8B ← 麊 [U+9E8A] CJK Unified Ideographs 麌 → [U+9E8C]

Translingual

Han character

麋 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+6, 17 strokes, Cangjie input 戈心火木 (IPFD), four-corner 0060₁, composition ⿸鹿米)

Derived characters

• 𢥐, 攗, 𤃱, 𣟸, 𨣿, 蘪

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1509, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47625
• Dae Jaweon: page 2037, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4730, character 18
• Unihan data for U+9E8B

Chinese

trad.		麋
simp. #		麋

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
謎	*miː, *miːs
迷	*miː
米	*miːʔ
眯	*miːʔ
洣	*miːʔ
蔝	*miːʔ
麊	*me
冞	*me
糜	*mral
敉	*meʔ
侎	*meʔ
麋	*mril
蘪	*mril
攗	*mril

Etymology

Perhaps Sino-Tibetan. Compare Chepang [script needed] (maiʔ, “meat”), Bodo (India) [script needed] (bʏiʔ, “deer”), Liangmai Naga [Term?] (ka-mî, “meat”), Northern Naga *me:y "meat, flesh"; a single etymon for "meat" and "deer" is also found in Tibetan ཤ (sha, “meat”) and ཤྭ (shwa, “deer”) (Schuessler, 2007). If so, another semantic parallel is Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tə-la (“flesh, meat, deer”), whence Tibetan གླ (gla, “musk deer”) but Newar [script needed] (la, “meat, animal”) and [script needed] (lā, “flesh, meat”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mí (mi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mei⁴
    • Yale: mèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî
    • Tâi-lô: bî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bii
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /bi²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /bi²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bi²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: mij

Rime
Character	麋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武悲切
Baxter	mij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/miɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mji/
Li Rong	/mji/
Wang Li	/mi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mr[i]j/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mril/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	麋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mí
Middle Chinese	‹ mij ›
Old Chinese	/*mr[i]j/
English	kind of deer
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	麋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9013
Phonetic component	米
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	眉
Old Chinese	/*mril/
Notes	甲文兼眉聲

Definitions

麋

1. Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus)
2. used as a surname

Compounds

• 隃麋
• 麋沸 (mífèi)
• 麋羚 (mílíng)
• 麋蠅 / 麋蝇 (míyíng)
• 麋鹿 (mílù)
• 麋黎 (mílí)

References

• “麋”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

麋

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi)
• Kun: おおじか (ōjika, 麋)^{←おほじか (ofozika, 麋, historical)}、なれしか (nareshika)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
麋
おおじか Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 麋 – see the following entry.

【大鹿おおじか】 [noun] [from 720] a large deer [noun] [from 1884] a moose, an elk: Alces alces [noun] [after 1884] a wapiti, an elk: Cervus canadensis [proper noun] a district in Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture Alternative spelling オオジカ

(This term, 麋, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

• “^▲麋”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

麋 (eum 미 (mi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

麋: Hán Nôm readings: mê, mi

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