昧

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See also: 味 and 眛
昧 U+6627, 昧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6627
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 昨 →

Translingual

Han character

昧 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日十木 (AJD), four-corner 65090, composition ⿰日未)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 493, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13846
  • Dae Jaweon: page 857, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1497, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6627

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 昧

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (未) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寐 *mids
魅 *mrɯds
鬽 *mrɯds
昧 *mɯːds
妹 *mɯːds
眛 *maːds, *mɯːds
沬 *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
未 *mɯds
味 *mɯds
鮇 *mɯds
菋 *mɯds

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 昧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 灰 (42)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫佩切
Baxter mwojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muʌiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/muoiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɒiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwəjH/
Li
Rong 		/muᴀiH/
Wang
Li 		/muɒiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/muɑ̆iH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mui6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mèi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mwojH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁ-s/
English dusk; dark

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 昧
Reading # 1/1
No. 12913
Phonetic
component 		未
Rime
group 		隊
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		妹
Old
Chinese 		/*mɯːds/

Definitions

昧

  1. ignorant; stupid; foolish
  2. to hide away; to conceal
  3. (literary) dark; gloomy
  4. (literary) to venture; to risk
  5. † to violate
  6. † to covet; to be greedy for
  7. An ancient type of music in eastern tribes in ancient China.
  8. A star.

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Tai: *mɯːtᴰ

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

昧

  1. † to cut; to sever

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

昧

  1. † Used in person's names.

Japanese

Kanji

昧

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. dark
  2. foolish

Readings

  • Go-on: まい (mai, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ばい (bai)
  • Kun: くらい (kurai, 昧い)、むさぼる (musaboru, 昧る)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

昧: Hán Nôm readings: muội, mội

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