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Translingual
Han character
冪 (Kangxi radical 14, 冖+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月廿日月 (BTAB), four-corner 37227, composition ⿱冖幕)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 131, character 9
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1601
- Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 306, character 5
- Unihan data for U+51AA
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 冟
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*hmjeɡ
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| 冖
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*meːɡ
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| 冪
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*meːɡ
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| 羃
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*meːɡ
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| 濗
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*meːɡ
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| 鼏
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*meːɡ
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Originally written as 幎: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːɡ) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 冥 (OC *meːŋ); Xu Shen indicates that the character 幎 means "幔", "tent" (today written as 帷幕).
Later the 六 was corrupted to 大 and the radical was written under the character, thus it became 幂.
艹 was added to form a new phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːɡ) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 幕 (OC *maːɡ).
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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冪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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mì
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ mek ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*mˁk/
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| English
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cover
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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冪
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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9020
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Phonetic
component
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冖
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Rime
group
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錫
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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覓
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Old
Chinese
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/*meːɡ/
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| Notes
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同冖見禮記
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Definitions
冪
- to cover with cloth
- cloth cover
- (mathematics) power
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
冪
(Hyōgai kanji)
Readings
Etymology
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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “「冪」の字義は「覆う、覆うもの」である。江戸時代の和算家は冪の略字として「巾」を用いていた。第二次世界大戦後の漢字制限政策のもと、これらの字は常用漢字・当用漢字に含まれず、1950年代以降の学習参考書などの出版物では仮名書きまたは「累乗」への書き換えが進められ、結果として初等数学の教科書ではもっぱら「累乗」が用いられた。「累乗」の字義は「重ね掛けた乗算」であり、自然数乗以外の冪に対して用いることは字義からすればあまり自然でない。”
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Pronunciation
Noun
冪 • (beki)
- (mathematics) a power
Synonyms
References
Korean
Hanja
冪 • (myeok) (hangeul 멱, revised myeok, McCune–Reischauer myŏk)
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Vietnamese
Han character
冪: Hán Việt readings: mịch, mạc
- conceal; cloak.