蔑

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See also: 衊
蔑 U+8511, 蔑
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8511
← 蔐
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蔒 →

Translingual

Han character

蔑 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 44253, composition ⿱𦭝戍 or ⿳艹罒戍)

Antonyms

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1054, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3279, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8511

Chinese

trad. 蔑
simp. # 蔑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蔑
Shang Western Zhou
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions
Characters in the same phonetic series (蔑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
礣 *mreːd
蔑 *meːd, *meːd
篾 *meːd
蠛 *meːd
懱 *meːd
幭 *meːd
鱴 *meːd
衊 *meːd
瀎 *meːd, *maːd
襪 *mad
韤 *mad
韈 *mad

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 𦰋 (“person”) + 戈 (“dagger-axe”) – a weapon striking a person's lower leg.

𦰋 (“person”) was composed of an eye with eyebrows (now written 眉) on top of 人. The eye and eyebrows are written ⿱艹罒 in the modern form of 蔑, and 人 has combined with 戈 to form 戍.

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蔑
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 屑 (87)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫結切
Baxter met
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/met̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/met̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛt̚/
Li
Rong 		/met̚/
Wang
Li 		/miet̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/miet̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mit6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蔑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		miè
Middle
Chinese 		‹ met ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁet/
English destroy; not have

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 蔑 蔑
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9116 9118
Phonetic
component 		蔑 蔑
Rime
group 		月 月
Rime
subdivision 		2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		蔑 蔑
Old
Chinese 		/*meːd/ /*meːd/
Notes 金文從伐𥄕聲或眉聲，
兼殺滅伐功義

Definitions

蔑

  1. to belittle; to disdain; to despise
  2. to extinguish; to obliterate
  3. to discard
  4. slight; small; lowly
  5. nothing; none
  6. (of the eye) red and swollen, making one unable to see clearly
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蔑 – see 衊 (“dirty blood; to smear; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 衊).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji

蔑

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. nothing
  2. to ignore
  3. to belittle, to despise

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蔑 (MC met).

Recorded as Middle Korean 며ᇙ〮 (Yale: myelq) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 멸〮 (myél) (Yale: myel) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

蔑 (eumhun 업신여길 멸 (eopsinyeogil myeol))

  1. hanja form? of 멸 (“to belittle; to despise”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

蔑: Hán Nôm readings: miệt

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Compounds

Compounds
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