佅

佅 U+4F45, 佅 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F45 ← 佄 [U+4F44] CJK Unified Ideographs 但 → [U+4F46]

Translingual

Han character

佅 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人十木 (OJD), composition ⿰亻未)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 97, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 494
• Dae Jaweon: page 206, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 129, character 7
• Unihan data for U+4F45

Chinese

simp. and trad.		佅

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眛	*maːds, *mɯːds
沬	*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	*mreːds, *maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	*meːd, *maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mài (mai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁶, mui⁶

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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, mui⁶
    • Yale: maaih, muih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁶, mui⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁶, mui⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯²²/, /muːi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: maejH

Rime
Character	佅
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

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːds/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	佅
Reading #	1/1
No.	9219
Phonetic component	末
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邁
Old Chinese	/*mraːds/
Notes	見班固賦，本應從末

Definitions

佅

1. (historical) Music of an eastern tribe in ancient China.
2. Alternative form of 昧 (“dark”)