皿

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See also: 血 and 罒
皿 U+76BF, 皿
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76BF
← 皾
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 盀 →
⽫ U+2F6B, ⽫
KANGXI RADICAL DISH
← ⽪
 		Kangxi Radicals ⽬ →

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

皿 (Kangxi radical 108, 皿+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 月廿 (BT), four-corner 77100, composition ⿴𠀃⿰丨丨 or ⿱𦉫一)

  1. Kangxi radical #108, ⽫.

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 792, character 33
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22941
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1207, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2557, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+76BF

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 皿
2nd round simp. 𠀃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 皿
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猛 *mraːŋʔ
艋 *mraːŋʔ
蜢 *mraːŋʔ
皿 *maŋʔ
孟 *mraːŋs

Pictogram (象形) A pictograph of an empty container, such as a chalice. The handles are conjoined in the modern form.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Note:
  • béng - literary;
  • bín - vernacular.
Rime
Character 皿
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武永切
Baxter mjaengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠiæŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚiaŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miaŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/miajŋX/
Li
Rong 		/miɐŋX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɐŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɐŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǐng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ming5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 皿
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjængX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mraŋʔ/
English vessel, bowl

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 皿
Reading # 1/1
No. 9151
Phonetic
component 		皿
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		皿
Old
Chinese 		/*maŋʔ/

Definitions

皿

  1. dish; vessel
    培養皿／培养皿  ―  péiyǎngmǐn  ―  Petri dish
Usage notes

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 皿 – see 四 (“four; four directions; all directions; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 四).

Japanese

Kanji

皿

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: みょう (myō)←みやう (myau, historical)
  • Kan-on: べい (bei)
  • Kun: さら (sara, 皿, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
皿
さら
Grade: 3
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
盤

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *sara.

Attested in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE with the phonetic man'yōgana spelling 娑羅 (sara).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

皿(さら) • (sara) 

  1. dish, plate

Descendants

  • → Korean: 사라 (sara)

References

  1. ^ “皿・盤”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

皿 (eumhun 그릇 명 (geureut myeong))

  1. hanja form? of 명 (“dish”)

Vietnamese

Han character

皿: Hán Nôm readings: mãnh, mảng, mảnh, mịn

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