邁

See also: 迈 and 遇

邁 U+9081, 邁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9081 ← 邀 [U+9080] CJK Unified Ideographs 邂 → [U+9082]

Translingual

Han character

邁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田月 (YTWB), four-corner 3430₂, composition ⿺辶萬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39169
• Dae Jaweon: page 1764, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3880, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9081

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Chinese

trad.		邁
simp.		迈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邁
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糲	*m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	*m·raːds, *m·rads
噧	*hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	*m·rads, *mlans
萬	*mlans

Etymology

“mile; kilometer per hour”

From English mile.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mài (mai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mai
• Eastern Min (BUC): mâi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): māi / mai

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mài
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mài
    • Wade–Giles: mai⁴
    • Yale: mài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may
    • Palladius: май (maj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maai⁶
    • Yale: maaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mai
    • Hakka Romanization System: mai
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /mai̯⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mâi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑi²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: māi
    • Tâi-lô: māi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mai
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mãi³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mãi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mai
    • Tâi-lô: mai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: may
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mãi⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mai⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: măi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mai³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: maejH

Rime
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	夬 (29)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫話切
Baxter	maejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠaiH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaiH/
Shao Rongfen	/maiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjsH/
Li Rong	/maiH/
Wang Li	/mæiH/
Bernard Karlgren	/maiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrat-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mài
Middle Chinese	‹ mæjH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrat-s/
English	proceed, march
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	邁
Reading #	1/1
No.	12618
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邁
Old Chinese	/*mraːds/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 邁

1. to go on a long journey
2. to stride; to take a step
3. to pass by; to surpass
4. old; elderly
5. mile
6. (colloquial) kilometer per hour
7. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 勱／劢 (mài).
8. a surname

References

• “邁”, 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–

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

邁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: まい (mai)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: ゆく (yuku, 邁く)、すぎる (sugiru, 邁ぎる)、つとめる (tsutomeru, 邁める)
• Nanori: すぐる (suguru)、すすむ (susumu)、つとむ (tsutomu)

Compounds

• 高邁 (こうまい)

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Korean

Hanja

邁 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邁: Hán Nôm readings: mại, mời, mười

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