邁

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See also: 迈 and 遇
邁 U+9081, 邁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9081
← 邀
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 邂 →

Translingual

Han character

邁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田月 (YTWB), four-corner 34302, composition ⿺辶萬)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39169
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1764, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3880, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9081

Chinese

trad. 邁
simp. 迈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邁
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糲 *m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡 *m·raːds, *m·rads
噧 *hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁 *mraːds
勱 *mraːds
蠆 *m̥ʰraːds
厲 *m·rads
勵 *m·rads
礪 *m·rads
蠣 *m·rads
蠇 *m·rads
癘 *m·rads
濿 *m·rads
櫔 *m·rads
巁 *m·rads
贎 *m·rads, *mlans
萬 *mlans

Etymology

“mile; kilometer per hour”
From English mile.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 邁
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 夬 (29)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫話切
Baxter maejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠaiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/maiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/maɨjsH/
Li
Rong 		/maiH/
Wang
Li 		/mæiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/maiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 邁
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mæjH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁrat-s/
English proceed, march

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 邁
Reading # 1/1
No. 12618
Phonetic
component 		萬
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		邁
Old
Chinese 		/*mraːds/

Definitions

邁

  1. to go on a long journey
  2. to stride; to take a step
  3. to pass by; to surpass
  4. old; elderly
  5. mile
  6. (colloquial) kilometer per hour
  7. Alternative form of 勱／劢 (mài)
  8. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

邁

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

邁 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邁: Hán Nôm readings: mại, mời, mười

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