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Translingual
Han character
靡 (Kangxi radical 175, 非+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈金中一卜 (ICLMY) or 戈木中一卜 (IDLMY), four-corner 00211, composition ⿸麻非)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1383, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42612
- Dae Jaweon: page 1896, character 14
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4088, character 5
- Unihan data for U+9761
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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麻
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*mraːl
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痲
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*mraːl
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犘
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*mraːl
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縻
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*mral
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醿
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*mral
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爢
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*mral
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蘼
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*mral, *mralʔ, *mrɯl
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靡
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*mralʔ
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摩
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*maːl, *maːls
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魔
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*maːl
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磨
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*maːl, *maːls
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劘
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*maːl
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麽
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*maːl
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麼
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*maːlʔ
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塺
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*maːls, *mɯːl
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麾
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*hmral
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *mralʔ) : phonetic 麻 (OC *mraːl) + semantic 非 - to scatter.
Pronunciation 1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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靡
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靡
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靡
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靡
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Reading #
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2/5
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3/5
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4/5
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5/5
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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mǐ
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mǐ
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mǐ
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mǐ
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Middle Chinese
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‹ mjeX ›
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‹ mjeX ›
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‹ mjeX ›
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‹ mjeX ›
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Old Chinese
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/*m(r)ajʔ/
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/*m(r)ajʔ/
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/*m(r)ajʔ/
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/*m(r)ajʔ/
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English
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squander
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not have, not exist
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fall over
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small, tiny
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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靡
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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8701
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Phonetic component
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麻
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Rime group
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歌
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Rime subdivision
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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靡
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Old Chinese
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/*mralʔ/
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Definitions
靡
- (literary) to fall down; to collapse; to be swept away
- (literary) extravagant; beautiful; splendid
- (literary) delicate; minute
- (literary) no; not
- (literary) to not have; to be without
Pronunciation 2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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靡
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Reading #
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1/5
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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mí
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Middle Chinese
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‹ mje ›
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Old Chinese
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/*m(r)aj/
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English
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to share with
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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.
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Definitions
靡
- extravagant; wasteful
- to waste; to squander
- † to extinguish; to eliminate
- † to rotten; to damage
- † to exhaust; to use up
- † to divide; to disperse; to scatter
- † to share
Compounds
References
Japanese
Kanji
靡
(Hyōgai kanji)
- to wave; to stream; to flutter
- extravagant; wasteful; to waste
- to exhaust
- to spread
Readings
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Compounds
References
Korean
Hanja
靡 (eum 미 (mi))
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Vietnamese
Han character
靡: Hán Nôm readings: mị
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