羋

See also: 芈

羋	U+7F8B, 羋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F8B

← 羊
[U+7F8A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

羌 →
[U+7F8C]

Translingual

Han character

羋 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿手 (TQ) or 難難廿手 (XXTQ), four-corner 1150₀, composition ⿱⿴卝丨干 or ⿱⿴卝丨𰀁)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 951, character 2
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28428
Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 10
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 29, character 8
Unihan data for U+7F8B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
羋	*meʔ
蝆	*meʔ

Ideogram (指事) : 羊 (“sheep”) with a mark indicating its bleating.

Etymology 1

trad.		羋
simp.		芈
alternative forms		哶／咩咩

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miē, mǐ (mie¹, mi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ, ㄇㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miē
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mie
  - Wade–Giles: mieh¹
  - Yale: myē
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
  - Palladius: ме (me)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, literary)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
  - Wade–Giles: mi³
  - Yale: mǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
  - Palladius: ми (mi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵
  - Yale: mē / méh / méih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mé¹ / mé⁵ / méi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/, /mɛː¹³/, /mei̯¹³/

Note:

me1, me5 - vernacular;
mei5 - literary.

Middle Chinese: mjieX

Rime
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綿婢切
Baxter	mjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆^X/
Li Rong	/mie^X/
Wang Li	/mǐe^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mie̯^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*meʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9016
Phonetic component	羋
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	渳
Old Chinese	/*meʔ/

Definitions

羋

baa! (the bleating of a sheep)

Etymology 2

From a Kam–Tai word for “bear” (Schuessler, 2007 apud Yan, 1983); compare Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”) (> Thai หมี (mǐi), Zhuang mui). The Records of the Grand Historian records that this was the family name (姓) of the ruling family of the state of Chu (楚), while 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm, “bear”) was the clan name (氏).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǐ (mi³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bí

(Teochew, Peng'im): mi²
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
  - Wade–Giles: mi³
  - Yale: mǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
  - Palladius: ми (mi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mei⁵
  - Yale: méih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí
  - Tâi-lô: bí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bie
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mi²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi⁵²/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶mi
  - MiniDict: mi^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mi
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mi²³/

Middle Chinese: mjieX

Rime
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綿婢切
Baxter	mjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆^X/
Li Rong	/mie^X/
Wang Li	/mǐe^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mie̯^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*meʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9016
Phonetic component	羋
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	渳
Old Chinese	/*meʔ/

Definitions

羋

a surname

Japanese

Kanji

羋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): ば (ba)、ま (ma)、び (bi)、み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

羋: Hán Nôm readings: mị

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