每

每 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人田卜戈 (OWYI), four-corner 8050₇, composition ⿱𠂉母)

• 𠳨, 㙁, 娒, 挴, 𤞦, 晦, 脢, 烸, 𤙩, 珻, 畮, 䀲, 𬑲, 𬒐, 䊈, 䋦(𫄩), 𧋟, 誨(诲), 踇, 酶, 鋂, 䩈, 𩊱, 䱕, 黣, 𠜮, 勄, 𠧩, 䋣, 毓, 緐, 莓, 䍙, 痗, 𫂂, 霉, 𫵾, 𢙽, 𣒫
• 侮, 悔, 海, 梅, 敏 (Note: For all regions except Japan. Japan character form contains 毎 as component for these characters)

• 毎 (Japanese shinjitai)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 589, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16725
• Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2381, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6BCF

Historical forms of the character 每
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯːʔ) : semantic 屮 + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).

Possibly from Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuj (“cardinal number one”) (Schuessler, 2007).

每

1. ^† lush

   • 原田每每，舍其舊而新是謀。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     原田每每，舍其旧而新是谋。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     Yuántián měiměi, shě qí jiù ér xīn shì móu.

     Lush are the fields! The old are about to be discarded; the new are being planned (or "making a plan"). (Ominous song heard before the Battle of Chengpu, precise meaning debated.)

2. every; each

   每日  ―  měirì  ―  every day; daily

   每次  ―  měicì  ―  every time

3. every time; each time
4. often; frequently
   • 1900 July 24, 梁啟超 [Liang Qichao], chapter 31, in 和文漢讀法 [The Chinese Method of Reading Japanese]‎, Tokyo: 秀英舍, page 18:

     讀日本書者，每苦於不能斷句。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     读日本书者，每苦于不能断句。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     Dú Rìběn shū zhě, měi kǔyú bùnéng duànjù.

     Those who read Japanese books often suffer from their inability to punctuate sentences.

5. ^† Alternative form of 們／们 (plural marker)
6. ^† flourishingly
7. a surname

• (every): 各 (gè)

Others:

• → Vietnamese: mọi

• “每”, 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 #3276”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 毎)

1. every
2. each

• On (unclassified): まい (mai)、ばい (bai)
• Kun: つね (tsune, 每)

From Middle Chinese 每 (MC mwojX).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

每

Wikisource

每 (eumhun 매양 매 (maeyang mae))

1. hanja form^? of 매 (“always; every”)

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

每: Hán Nôm readings: mỗi, mọi, mủi

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