尾

尾 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 7721₄, composition ⿸尸毛)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5C3E

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of straddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).

尾

1. tail (Classifier: 條／条 c; 支 mn)
2. end
3. last; final
4. Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
   • 2022, “过想看见你”, 李立群 (lyrics), 郑伊洋 (music)‎performed by 张滢:

     我过想看见你，肖一尾自由自在个小鱼 [Teochew, simp.]
     我過想看見你，肖一尾自由自在個小魚 [Teochew, trad.]

     ua² guê³ sion⁶ toin² gin³ le², siao⁶ zêg⁸ bhuê² ze⁶ iu⁵ ze⁶ zai⁶ gai⁵ sio² he⁵ [Peng'im]

     I want to see you be like a carefree little fish

5. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

• (tail):

• (classifier for fish):

• “尾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #3070”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
• Kun: お (o, 尾, Jōyō)^{←を (wo, 尾, historical)}

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尾

Wikipedia ^ja

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese 尾 (wo), from Proto-Japonic *bo.^[1]

First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE in the senses “tail” and “foot of a mountain”.^[2]

• (Tokyo) お (Atamadaka – )^[3][4]
• IPA^(key):

尾(お) • (o) ^{←を (wo)?}

1. tail
2. foot of a mountain
3. end of something

• (tail): 尻(しっ)尾(ぽ) (shippo)
• (foot of a mountain): 麓(ふもと) (fumoto), 山麓(さんろく) (sanroku)

From Middle Chinese 尾 (MC mj+jX).

• (Tokyo) び (Atamadaka – )^[3]
• IPA^(key):

尾(び) • (bi) 

1. tail

• 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku, “Tail”)

尾(び) • (-bi) 

1. fish, shrimp

尾(び) • (Bi) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail

   Hypernyms: 青竜, 二十八宿

• 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku), 足(あし)垂(た)れ星(ぼし) (Ashitareboshi)

尾 (eumhun 꼬리 미 (kkori mi))

1. hanja form^? of 미 (“tail, extremity”)
2. hanja form^? of 미 (“end, stern”)

尾: Hán Nôm readings: vĩ, vãi, vả, vã, vải, nhân

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