尾

Translingual

Han character

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

References

• 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

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

Definitions

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

Synonyms

• (tail):

• (classifier for fish):

Compounds

References

• “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 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• 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

Etymology 1

/wo/ → /o/.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) お​ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Noun

尾(お) • (o) ^{←を (wo)?}

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

Synonyms

• (tail): 尻(しっ)尾(ぽ) (shippo)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Middle Chinese 尾 (mʉi^X)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) び​ (Atamadaka – )
• IPA^(key):

Affix

尾(び) • (bi) 

1. tail

Derived terms

• 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku, “Tail”)

Counter

尾(び) • (-bi) 

1. fish, shrimp

Proper noun

尾(び) • (Bi) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail

Synonyms

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

References

Korean

Hanja

尾 (eumhun 꼬리 미 (kkori mi))

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

Vietnamese

Han character

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

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