麑

麑	U+9E91, 麑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E91

← 麐
[U+9E90]

CJK Unified Ideographs

麒 →
[U+9E92]

Translingual

Han character

麑 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈心竹難山 (IPHXU), four-corner 0021₇, composition ⿸鹿兒)

fawn, young deer

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1510, character 23
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47656
Dae Jaweon: page 2038, character 34
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4733, character 6
Unihan data for U+9E91

Chinese

trad.		麑
simp. ^#		麑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麑
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
掜	rŋeː, ŋeːʔ
誽	*rŋeː
倪	*ŋeː
蜺	ŋeː, ŋeː
霓	ŋeː, ŋeːs, *ŋeː
郳	*ŋeː
齯	*ŋeː
婗	*ŋeː
輗	*ŋeː
棿	*ŋeː
猊	*ŋeː
麑	*ŋeː
貎	*ŋeː
鯢	*ŋeː
兒	ŋeː, ŋje
觬	ŋeː, ŋeːʔ
堄	ŋeːʔ, ŋeːs
晲	*ŋeːʔ
睨	*ŋeːs
唲	*ŋje
隉	*ŋeːd
鶂	*ŋeːɡ
鬩	*ɦŋeːɡ

Etymology

Possibly related to 倪 (OC *ŋeː, “small and weak”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ní (ni²)

(Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ní
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ní
  - Wade–Giles: ni²
  - Yale: ní
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
  - Palladius: ни (ni)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ni³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: ngai⁴
  - Yale: ngàih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngei⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐi̯²¹/

Middle Chinese: ngej

Rime
Character	麑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	五稽切
Baxter	ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋei/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋei/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛj/
Li Rong	/ŋei/
Wang Li	/ŋiei/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋiei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngai⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*m-ŋˤe/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	麑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ní
Middle Chinese	‹ mej ›
Old Chinese	/*m-ŋˁe/
English	fawn
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	麑
Reading #	1/1
No.	2745
Phonetic component	兒
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	倪
Old Chinese	/*ŋeː/
Notes	同猊

Definitions

麑

fawn; young deer
Synonym: 麛 (mí)
used in 狻麑

Compounds

狻麑 (suānní)
鉏麑 / 锄麑
鉏麑觸槐 / 锄麑触槐
麑裘 (níqiú)
麑鹿 (nílù)

Japanese

Kanji

麑

(Hyōgai kanji)

fawn

Readings

Kan-on: げい (gei)、べい (bei)
Kun: かご (kago)、かのこ (kanoko)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
麑
げい Hyōgai
on'yomi

Shortening of 麑島, obsolete spelling of 鹿(か)児(ご)島(しま) (kagoshima, “Kagoshima”). Pronunciation from Middle Chinese 麑 (MC ngej).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɡe̞ː]

Affix

麑(げい) • (gei)

(obsolete) short for 鹿児島／麑島 (Kagoshima, “Kagoshima (a province of Japan)”)

Korean

Hanja

麑 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)

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