羋

See also: 芈

羋 U+7F8B, 羋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F8B ← 羊 [U+7F8A] CJK Unified Ideographs 羌 → [U+7F8C]

Translingual

Han character

羋 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+1, 7 strokes, cangjie input 廿手 (TQ) or 難難廿手 (XXTQ), four-corner 1150₀, composition ⿱⿴卝丨干 or ⿱⿴卝丨𰀁)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 951, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28428
• Dae Jaweon: page 1393, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 29, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7F8B

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 羋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

	Old Chinese
羋	*meʔ
蝆	*meʔ

Characters in the same phonetic series (羋) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Ideogram (指事): 羊 (“sheep”) with a mark indicating its bleating.

Etymology 1

trad.		羋
simp.		芈
alternative forms		哶／咩 咩

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綿婢切
Baxter	mjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆X/
Li Rong	/mieX/
Wang Li	/mǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei5

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9016
Phonetic component	羋
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	渳
Old Chinese	/*meʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miē, mǐ (mie¹, mi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ, ㄇㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mie
    • Wade–Giles: mieh¹
    • Yale: myē
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
    • Palladius: ме (me)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, literary)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
    • Wade–Giles: mi³
    • Yale: mǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
    • Palladius: ми (mi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵
    • Yale: mē / méh / méih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: me¹ / me⁵ / mei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mé¹ / mé⁵ / méi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/, /mɛː¹³/, /mei̯¹³/

Note:

• me1, me5 - vernacular;
• mei5 - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: mjieX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*meʔ/

Definitions

羋

1. baa! (the bleating of a sheep)

Etymology 2

From a Kam–Tai word for “bear” (Schuessler, 2007 apud Yan, 1983); compare Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”) (> Thai หมี (mǐi), Zhuang mui). The Records of the Grand Historian records that this was the family name (姓) of the ruling family of the state of Chu (楚), while 熊 (OC *ɢʷlɯm, “bear”) was the clan name (氏).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	綿婢切
Baxter	mjieX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miə̆X/
Li Rong	/mieX/
Wang Li	/mǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei5

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	羋
Reading #	1/1
No.	9016
Phonetic component	羋
Rime group	支
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	渳
Old Chinese	/*meʔ/

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐ (mi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mi²

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
    • Wade–Giles: mi³
    • Yale: mǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
    • Palladius: ми (mi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mei⁵
    • Yale: méih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí
    • Tâi-lô: bí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bie
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mí
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶mi
    • MiniDict: mi^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mi
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mi²³/

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• Middle Chinese: mjieX

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*meʔ/

Definitions

羋

1. a surname

Japanese

Kanji

羋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ば (ba)、ま (ma)、び (bi)、み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

羋 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

羋: Hán Nôm readings: mị

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