迷

See also: 述

迷 U+8FF7, 迷 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FF7 ← 迶 [U+8FF6] CJK Unified Ideographs 迸 → [U+8FF8]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

迷 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜火木 (YFD), four-corner 3930₉, composition ⿺辶米)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1255, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38825
• Dae Jaweon: page 1739, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3832, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8FF7

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Chinese

trad.		迷
simp. #		迷

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *miː) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 米 (OC *miːʔ)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 迷

1. to get lost

   迷路  ―  mílù  ―  to get lost; to lose one's way

2. to confuse; to bewilder
3. to bewitch; to charm; to infatuate

   迷人  ―  mírén  ―  charming

   • 酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷。 [Written Vernacular Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Plum in the Golden Vase, circa 1610 CE

     Jiǔ bù zuì rén rén zì zuì, sè bù mí rén rén zì mí. [Pinyin]

     Alcohol does not intoxicate men, men are intoxicated by themselves; women do not infatuate men, men are infatuated by themselves.

4. to be obsessed; to be crazy about
5. confused; bewildered
6. obsessed; crazy about
7. fan (fanatic)

   歌迷  ―  gēmí  ―  fan of a singer

Synonyms

• (fan):

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• fan屎 (neologism, slang, humorous, derogatory)
• 愛好家／爱好家 (àihàojiā)
• 愛好者／爱好者 (àihàozhě)
• 業餘者／业余者 (yèyúzhě)
• 番薯 (fānshǔ)
• 發燒友／发烧友 (fāshāoyǒu)
• 粉絲／粉丝 (fěnsī) (informal)
• 飯／饭 (fàn) (neologism, slang)

 

Compounds

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Japanese

Shinjitai	迷
Kyūjitai	迷

Kanji

迷

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to be lost

Readings

• Go-on: まい (mai)
• Kan-on: べい (bei)
• Kan’yō-on: めい (mei, Jōyō)
• Kun: まよう (mayou, 迷う, Jōyō)^{←まよふ (mayofu, 迷ふ, historical)}

Derived terms

• さ迷(まよ)う (samayou): to wander
• 迷(まい)子(ご) (maigo): lost child

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 迷 (MC mej). Recorded as Middle Korean 미 (mi) (Yale: mi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

迷 (eumhun 미혹할 미 (mihokhal mi))

1. hanja form^? of 미 (“to get lost”)
2. hanja form^? of 미 (“confusion”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 미궁 (迷宮, migung)
• 미로 (迷路, miro)
• 미신 (迷信, misin)
• 미아 (迷兒, mia)
• 미혹 (迷惑, mihok)
• 혼미 (昏迷, honmi)
• 미견 (迷見, migyeon)
• 미망 (迷妄, mimang)
• 미채 (迷彩, michae)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

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Vietnamese

Han character

迷: Hán Nôm readings: mê, mài, mế, mơ, muồi, me

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