麋

Translingual

Han character

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

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

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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

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
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi²⁴/
    • 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/
Bernard 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

(deprecated template usage) 麋

1. moose, elk (Eurasia)
2. used as a surname

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Japanese

Kanji

麋

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi)
• Kun: おおじか (ōjika); なれしか (nareshika)

Etymology

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

Compound of 大 (ō, “big”) +‎ 鹿 (shika, “deer”). The shika changes to jika as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Noun

麋(おおじか) • (ōjika) ^{←おほじか (ofozika)?}

1. Alternative spelling of 大鹿

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Korean

Hanja

麋 (eum 미 (mi))

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Vietnamese

Han character

麋: Hán Nôm readings: mê, mi

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