迷

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See also: 述
迷 U+8FF7, 迷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FF7
← 迶
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 迸 →

Translingual

Stroke order
9 strokes

Han character

迷 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜火木 (YFD), four-corner 39309, composition ⿺辶米)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1255, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38825
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1739, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3832, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8FF7

Chinese

trad. 迷
simp. # 迷

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謎 *miː, *miːs
迷 *miː
米 *miːʔ
眯 *miːʔ
洣 *miːʔ
蔝 *miːʔ
麊 *me
冞 *me
糜 *mral
敉 *meʔ
侎 *meʔ
麋 *mril
蘪 *mril
攗 *mril

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *miː) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 米 (OC *miːʔ)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 迷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫兮切
Baxter mej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛj/
Li
Rong 		/mei/
Wang
Li 		/miei/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/miei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 迷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁij/
English go astray

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 迷
Reading # 1/1
No. 9002
Phonetic
component 		米
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		迷
Old
Chinese 		/*miː/

Definitions

迷

  1. to get lost
    迷路  ―  mílù  ―  to get lost; to lose one's way
  2. to confuse; to bewilder
  3. to bewitch; to charm; to infatuate
    迷人  ―  mírén  ―  charming
  4. to be obsessed; to be crazy about
  5. confused; bewildered
  6. obsessed; crazy about
  7. fan (fanatic)
    歌迷  ―  gēmí  ―  fan of a singer

Synonyms

  • (fan):

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (迷):
  • → Vietnamese: mê (迷)

Japanese

Shinjitai 迷
Kyūjitai
迷󠄁
迷+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
迷󠄃
迷+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

迷

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to be lost

Readings

Compounds

References

  1. ^ “迷”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 迷 (MC mej). Recorded as Middle Korean 미 (mi) (Yale: mi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

迷 (eumhun 미혹할 미 (mihokhal mi))

  1. Hanja form? of 미 (“to get lost”).
  2. Hanja form? of 미 (“confusion”).

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

迷: Hán Nôm readings: mê, mài, mế, mơ, muồi, me

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