繆

繆 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 女火尸一竹 (VFSMH), four-corner 2792₂, composition ⿰糹翏)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 937, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27855
• Dae Jaweon: page 1376, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3449, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7E46

Historical forms of the character 繆
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

繆

1. ten bundles of hemp
2. a type of silk
3. Used in 綢繆／绸缪 (chóumóu).

繆

1. to deceive; to feign
2. (obsolete) different

   • 名與實爽曰繆。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     名与实爽曰缪。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Lost Book of Zhou, circa 4^th – 1^st centuries BCE

     Míng yǔ shí shuǎng yuē miù.

     When the reputation and reality diverge, call different.

3. (alt. form 謬／谬) error; mistake

   • 《易》曰：「君子慎始，差若豪氂，繆以千里。」此之謂也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     《易》曰：「君子慎始，差若豪牦，缪以千里。」此之谓也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Book of Rites, c. 4^th – 2^nd century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     “Yì” yuē: “Jūnzǐ shèn shǐ, chā ruò háolí, miù yǐ qiānlǐ.” Cǐ zhī wèi yě.

     This sentiment is found in the words of the Yi, ‘The superior man is careful at the commencement; a mistake, then, of a hair's breadth, will lead to an error of a thousand li.’

4. (alt. form 謬／谬) erroneous; mistaken

繆

1. a surname

繆

1. to interlock
2. thin
3. Alternative form of 糾／纠
4. Alternative form of 摎

繆

1. Alternative form of 穆 (mù, “reverent; solemn”)
2. Alternative form of 穆 (mù, “right side position of ancestral tablets in ancestral shrines”)

繆

1. Alternative form of 繚／缭 (liáo, “to wind around; to entwine”)

繆

1. Only used in 繆繆／缪缪.

繆

1. Only used in 蜩繆／蜩缪.

繆

1. (alt. form 戮, 勠) to join forces

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03167
• “繆”, 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–

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. error
2. wrap around

• Go-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}、みゅう (myū)^{←みう (miu, historical)}、もく (moku)、る (ru)
• Kan-on: きゅう (kyū)^{←きう (kiu, historical)}、びゅう (byū)^{←びう (biu, historical)}、ぼく (boku)、りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: あやまる (ayamaru, 繆る)、まとう (matou, 繆う)

繆 • (mu, yu) (hangeul 무, 유, revised mu, yu, McCune–Reischauer mu, yu, Yale mu, yu)

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