彌

See also: 弥

Translingual

Han character

彌 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+14, 17 strokes, cangjie input 弓一火月 (NMFB), four-corner 1122₇, composition ⿰弓爾)

1. extensive, full
2. fill
3. complete

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 361, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9877
• Dae Jaweon: page 679, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1004, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5F4C

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Chinese

trad.		彌
simp.		弥*

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
嬭	*rneːlʔ, *niːlʔ
禰	*niːlʔ
镾	*niːlʔ, *mnel
薾	*niːlʔ
檷	*niːlʔ
鑈	*niːlʔ, *neːb
瀰	*niːlʔ, *mnel, *mnelʔ
獼	*mnel
瓕	*mnel
彌	*mnel
鸍	*mnel, *hnjel
擟	*mnel
濔	*mnelʔ
壐	*smlelʔ
璽	*smlelʔ
爾	*njelʔ
邇	*njelʔ
獮	*smlenʔ
籋	*neb, *neːb

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mí (mi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴ / nei⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mì
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bî / mî / mí / nî

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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 / nei⁴
    • Yale: mèih / nèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴ / nei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴ / néi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹/, /nei̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mì
    • Hakka Romanization System: mi^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mi²
    • Sinological IPA: /mi¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî
    • Tâi-lô: bî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bii
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /bi²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, variant in Taiwan, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî
    • Tâi-lô: mî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mii
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /mĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩ¹³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mĩ²³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mí
    • Tâi-lô: mí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mie
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mĩ⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mĩ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nî
    • Tâi-lô: nî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nii
    • IPA (Taipei): /nĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nĩ²³/

Note: mí - vulgar.

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• Middle Chinese: mjie

Rime
Character	彌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武移切
Baxter	mjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆/
Li Rong	/mie/
Wang Li	/mǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-nə[r]/, /*m-nə[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mnel/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	彌	彌
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mí	mí
Middle Chinese	‹ mjie ›	‹ mjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-nə[r]/	/*m-nə[r]ʔ/
English	to complete	stop
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	彌
Reading #	1/1
No.	2808
Phonetic component	爾
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	彌
Old Chinese	/*mnel/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 彌

1. extensive, full
2. to fill, to complete

   • 顏淵喟然歎曰：「仰之彌高，鑽之彌堅。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     颜渊喟然叹曰：「仰之弥高，钻之弥坚。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yán yuān kuìrán tàn yuē: “Yǎng zhī mí gāo, zuàn zhī mí jiān.” [Pinyin]

     Yan Yuan sighed in admiration and said, "I looked up to them and they became loftier, more complete; I tried to pierce them and (found that) they were filled with resolution."

3. (a personal name)

References

• “Query for 彌”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

Kanji

彌

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): び (bi), み (mi), げい (gei)
• Kun: ひさしい (hisashii), わたる (wataru), あまねし (amaneshi), いよいよ (iyoiyo)

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Korean

Hanja

彌 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 彌 (di)

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