乜

乜 (Kangxi radical 5, 乙+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 心弓 (PN) or 心尸 (PS) or 難心弓 (XPN), four-corner 4771₂, composition ⿻乛乚 or ⿻𠃌乚)

• 𦘮, 𤘗, 𠬫, 𭑫, 𭴂, 𮓲

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 83, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 166
• Dae Jaweon: page 168, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 49, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4E5C

From 物 (MC mjut) (Lien, 2013; Chor and Lam, 2023).

Also compare Zhuang maz (“what”).

乜

1. (Cantonese, Southern Min) what

   要啲乜？ [Cantonese]  ―  jiu³ di¹ mat¹?   ―  What do you want?

   愛乜個？／爱乜个？ [Teochew]  ―  ain³ mih⁴ gai⁵? [Peng'im]  ―  What do you want?

2. (Cantonese) anything; everything

   乜都得 [Cantonese]  ―  mat¹ dou¹ dak¹   ―  anything goes

3. (Cantonese) why; how come

   乜你咁傻㗎？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   mat¹ nei⁵ gam³ so⁴ gaa³?

   How come you're so stupid?

4. (Cantonese) Used at the beginning of a question to give a rhetorical effect.

   乜你未食飯㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   乜你未食饭㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   mat¹ nei⁵ mei⁶ sik⁶ faan⁶ gaa⁴?

   So you haven't eaten yet?

   乜仲未有佢嘅消息咩？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   mat¹ zung⁶ mei⁶ jau⁵ keoi⁵ ge³ siu¹ sik¹ me¹?

   So we still don't have any news about him?

In Teochew, when used to mean "what", this word should always be immediately followed by a noun. Otherwise, use 乜個／乜个.

乜

1. to narrow one's eyes and squint

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 乜姓 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 乜氏 (Cantonese)

乜

1. a surname, listed 388th in the Baijiaxing

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乜

1. (dialectal Mandarin) that

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乜

1. (Hakka) also

   • 無限滿足快樂湧自心田　危險中乜毋改變 [Sixian Hakka, trad.]
     无限满足快乐涌自心田　危险中乜毋改变 [Sixian Hakka, simp.]

     From: 客家聖樂團, 上帝就係愛

     mò-han mân-chiuk khoai-lo̍k yúng chhṳ sîm-thièn, ngùi-hiám chûng me m̀ kói-pien [Pha̍k-fa-sṳ]

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(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to squint

• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ば (ba)
• Kun: やぶにらみ (yabunirami, 乜み)

乜 (eumhun 사팔뜨기 먀 (sapaltteugi mya))

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乜: Hán Việt readings: khiết^[1]

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