緬

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See also: 缅
緬 U+7DEC, 緬
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7DEC
← 緫
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 緭 →

Translingual

Han character

緬 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 女火一田中 (VFMWL), four-corner 21960, composition ⿰糹面)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 931, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27674
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1370, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3425, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+7DEC

Chinese

trad. 緬
simp. 缅
2nd round simp. 𰬄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (面) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蝒 *men
緬 *menʔ
湎 *menʔ
愐 *menʔ
偭 *menʔ, *mens
勔 *menʔ
面 *mens
麵 *meːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *menʔ) : semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 面 (OC *mens).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • miang2/miang5 - Shantou;
  • miêng2/miêng5 - Chaozhou;
  • miang5/miêng5 - vernacular (俗).
Rime
Character 緬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 仙 (77)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌兖切
Baxter mjienX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mianX/
Li
Rong 		/miɛnX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɛnX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		min5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 緬
Reading # 1/1
No. 9093
Phonetic
component 		面
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		緬
Old
Chinese 		/*menʔ/

Definitions

緬

  1. distant, remote
  2. Short for 緬甸／缅甸 (Miǎndiàn, “Myanmar, Burma”).

Compounds

References

  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “缅”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 157.

Japanese

Kanji

緬

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. fine thread
  2. Abbreviation of 緬甸 (Menden, Biruma): Burma (Myanmar)

Readings

  • Go-on: めん (men)
  • Kan-on: べん (ben)
  • Kun: ほそいと (hosoito)、はるか (haruka)、かるい (karui, 緬い)

Korean

Hanja

緬 • (myeon) (hangeul 면)

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Vietnamese

Han character

緬: Hán Nôm readings: miễn, mén, diến, miến, rịn

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