See also:
U+884A, 衊
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-884A

[U+8849]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+884B]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 143, 血+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿廿田戈 (HTTWI), four-corner 24153, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1108, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 34023
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1570, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3054, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+884A

Chinese

trad.
simp. *

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *meːd): semantic (blood) + phonetic (OC *meːd, *meːd)

Etymology 1

Baxter & Sagart (2014) reconstruct (OC *mˤi[k]) and relate it to (OC *m̥ˤik) and (OC *C.mˤ<r>[i]k, “vein”). See those two for etmology and discussion.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
Baxter met
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/met̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/met̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/mɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mɛt̚/
Li
Rong
/met̚/
Wang
Li
/miet̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/miet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mit6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9123
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*meːd/

Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) dirty blood
  2. to smear
  3. to defile
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) nosebleed

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“to belittle; to disdain; to despise; to extinguish; to obliterate; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): べつ (betsu)めち (mechi)ばつ (batsu)まち (machi)

Korean

Hanja

• (myeol) (hangeul , revised myeol, McCune–Reischauer myŏl, Yale myel)

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Việt readings: miệt[1][2][3]
: Nôm readings: mét[4]

  1. chữ Hán form of miệt (dirty blood, to defile)
  2. chữ Nôm form of mét (pale)

References

  1. ^ Trần (1999).
  2. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  3. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
  4. ^ Nguyễn (2014).