謬

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See also: 谬
謬 U+8B2C, 謬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8B2C
← 謫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 謭 →

Translingual

Han character

謬 (Kangxi radical 149, 言+11, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜口尸一竹 (YRSMH), four-corner 07622, composition ⿰訁翏)

  1. error, exaggeration
  2. erroneous

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1177, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 35872
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1642, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4015, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8B2C

Chinese

trad. 謬
simp. 谬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (翏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
醪 *ruːw
嫪 *ruːw, *rɯːws
嘐 *ɡ·ruːw, *krɯːw, *qʰrɯːw
賿 *rrɯːw, *rrɯːwʔ
顟 *rrɯːw
膠 *krɯːw, *krɯːws, *kʰrɯːw
轇 *krɯːw
摎 *krɯːw, *rɯw
髎 *riw, *rɯːw
熮 *riws, *rɯːw, *rɯwʔ
廖 *rɯːw, *rɯːws, *rɯws
憀 *rɯːw, *rɯw
豂 *rɯːw
漻 *rɯːw
翏 *ɡ·rɯːw, *ɡ·rɯws
寥 *rɯːw, *rɯːwɢ
蓼 *rɯːwʔ, *rɯwɢ
鄝 *rɯːwʔ
鷚 *mɡlɯw, *rɯwɢs, *mɡrɯw, *ɡrɯw
繆 *mlɯw, *mɡrɯw, *mrɯws, *mlɯwɢ
勠 *rɯw, *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
疁 *rɯw
飂 *rɯw, *rɯws
鏐 *rɯw, *rɯw
僇 *rɯwɢs, *rɯwɢ
瘳 *r̥ʰɯw
璆 *ɡlɯw, *ɡrɯw
謬 *mrɯws
蟉 *ɡ·rɯw, *ɡrɯw, *ɡrɯwʔ
樛 *krɯw
磟 *ruːwɢ, *rɯwɢ
戮 *rɯwɢ
剹 *rɯwɢ
穋 *rɯwɢ

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kiː(l/r) (“to bend; to wind; to twist; to roll”), i.e. “to twist words; to twist the truth”. Related to 糾 (OC *krɯwʔ, “to entangle”), 絞 (OC *kreːwʔ, “to twist; to strangle”), 摎 (OC *krɯːw, “to strangle”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 謬
Mandarin Beijing /miou⁵¹/
/niou⁵¹/
Harbin /niou⁵³/
Tianjin /niou⁵³/
Jinan /ȵiou²¹/
Qingdao /niou⁴²/
Zhengzhou /niou³¹²/
Xi'an /niou⁴⁴/
Xining /miɯ²¹³/
Yinchuan /niəu¹³/
Lanzhou /ȵiou¹³/
Ürümqi /ȵiɤu²¹³/
Wuhan /miau³⁵/
Chengdu /miau¹³/
/miəu¹³/
Guiyang /miəu²¹³/
Kunming /miəu²¹²/
Nanjing /miɔo⁴⁴/
/miəɯ⁴⁴/
Hefei /liɯ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /niəu⁴⁵/
Pingyao
Hohhot /niəu⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /miɤ²³/
Suzhou /mɤ³¹/
Hangzhou /ȵiu¹³/
Wenzhou /miɛ²²/
Hui Shexian /miɔ²²/
Tunxi /miu¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /miau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /miaɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /miau³¹/
Taoyuan
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐu²²/
Nanning /mɐu²²/
Hong Kong /mɐu²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /biu²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /miɛu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /niau⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /nĩu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /miu³⁵/
Rime
Character 謬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 幽 (138)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 靡幼切
Baxter mjiwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miɪuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mɨuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mieuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mjiwH/
Li
Rong 		/miĕuH/
Wang
Li 		/miəuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 謬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		miù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjiwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m-riw-s/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-)
English lie, error < 'twist the truth'

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.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 謬
Reading # 1/1
No. 8388
Phonetic
component 		翏
Rime
group 		幽
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		謬
Old
Chinese 		/*mrɯws/

Definitions

謬

  1. false; wrong; erroneous
  2. error; mistake
  3. to deceive; to twist the truth
  4. a surname

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “谬”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

Japanese

Kanji

謬

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. mistake

Readings

  • Go-on: みゅう (myū)←みう (miu, historical)
  • Kan-on: びゅう (byū)←びう (biu, historical)
  • Kun: あやまる (ayamaru, 謬る)

Compounds

Compounds with 謬

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is 무 (mu) based on Middle Chinese 謬 (MC mjiwH).

Historical readings

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

謬 (eumhun 그릇될 류 (geureutdoel ryu), word-initial (South Korea) 그릇될 유 (geureutdoel yu))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“false; wrong; erroneous”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

謬: Hán Việt readings: mậu[1][2][3][4]

  1. chữ Hán form of mậu (“mistake”).

References

  1. ^ Trần (2004).
  2. ^ Trần (1999).
  3. ^ Nguyễn (1974).
  4. ^ Thiều Chửu (1942).
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