媚
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Translingual
Han character
媚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女日竹山 (VAHU), four-corner 47467, composition ⿰女眉)
Derived characters
- 䉋, 𬛾
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 267, character 7
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6513
- Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 11
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1069, character 15
- Unihan data for U+5A9A
Chinese
| trad. | 媚 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. # | 媚 | |
| 2nd round simp. | 𰋻 | |
Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (眉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrils): semantic 女 + phonetic 眉 (OC *mril).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mei6 / mei4
- Hakka
- Eastern Min (BUC): mê
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bi5
- Southern Min
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: mèi
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mèi
- Wade–Giles: mei4
- Yale: mèi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
- Palladius: мэй (mɛj)
- Sinological IPA (key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mei6 / mei4
- Yale: meih / mèih
- Cantonese Pinyin: mei6 / mei4
- Guangdong Romanization: méi6 / méi4
- Sinological IPA (key): /mei̯²²/, /mei̯²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mì
- Hakka Romanization System: miˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: mi2
- Sinological IPA: /mi¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
- Hakka Romanization System: mi
- Sinological IPA: /mi⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Eastern Min
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: bi5
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bī
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: bi5
- Sinological IPA (key): /pi²¹/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī
- Tâi-lô: bī
- Phofsit Daibuun: bi
- IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bi³³/
- IPA (Xiamen): /bi²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mī
- Tâi-lô: mī
- Phofsit Daibuun: mi
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩ²²/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: mi7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mī
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi¹¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
- Middle Chinese: mijH
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*mrəjʔ-s/
- (Zhengzhang): /*mrils/
Definitions
媚
- charming; attractive
- to flatter; to fawn on; to curry favor
- (literary) to love
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 拍馬屁 (“to brownnose; to suck up to”) [map]
Compounds
- 仄媚
- 側媚 / 侧媚
- 千嬌百媚 / 千娇百媚
- 取媚
- 奴顏媚骨 / 奴颜媚骨 (núyánmèigǔ)
- 妖媚 (yāomèi)
- 姿姿媚媚
- 姿媚
- 姣媚
- 妍媚
- 媚世 (mèishì)
- 媚力 (mèilì)
- 媚外 (mèiwài)
- 媚奧 / 媚奥
- 媚如秋月
- 媚姿姿
- 媚嫵 / 媚妩
- 媚子
- 媚惑
- 媚態 / 媚态 (mèitài)
- 媚景
- 媚灶
- 媚眼 (mèiyǎn)
- 媚笑雜樣 / 媚笑杂样
- 媚行
- 媚諂 / 媚谄
- 媚諛 / 媚谀
- 媚道
- 媚骨 (mèigǔ)
- 嬌媚 / 娇媚 (jiāomèi)
- 嫵媚 / 妩媚 (wǔmèi)
- 崇洋媚外 (chóngyángmèiwài)
- 承歡獻媚 / 承欢献媚 (chénghuān xiànmèi)
- 抹媚
- 斂怨求媚 / 敛怨求媚
- 明媚 (míngmèi)
- 明媚閑雅 / 明媚闲雅
- 春光明媚 (chūnguāngmíngmèi)
- 映媚
- 曲媚取容
- 木媚
- 柔媚 (róumèi)
- 柳媚花明
- 武媚
- 求容取媚
- 煙視媚行 / 烟视媚行
- 爭妍獻媚 / 争妍献媚
- 狐媚 (húmèi)
- 狐媚子
- 狐媚猿攀
- 狐媚魔道
- 狐媚魘道 / 狐媚魇道
- 獻媚 / 献媚 (xiànmèi)
- 甜言媚語 / 甜言媚语
- 百媚千嬌 / 百媚千娇
- 秀媚 (xiùmèi)
- 綺媚 / 绮媚
- 良辰媚景
- 花明柳媚
- 薄媚
- 蠱媚 / 蛊媚
- 諂媚 / 谄媚 (chǎnmèi)
- 諛媚 / 谀媚
- 阿媚
- 風光明媚 / 风光明媚
References
- “媚”, 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–
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