腜

腜 U+815C, 腜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-815C ← 腛 [U+815B] CJK Unified Ideographs 腝 → [U+815D]

Translingual

Han character

腜 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月廿一木 (BTMD), four-corner 7429₄, composition ⿰月某)

1. quickening of the foetus

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 987, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29661
• Dae Jaweon: page 1440, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2093, character 18
• Unihan data for U+815C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		腜

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
某	*mɯʔ
謀	*mɯ
媒	*mɯː
煤	*mɯː
腜	*mɯː
禖	*mɯː

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méi (mei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méi
    • Wade–Giles: mei²
    • Yale: méi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
    • Palladius: мэй (mɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁴
    • Yale: mùih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mwoj

Rime
Character	腜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫杯切
Baxter	mwoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/muoi/
Shao Rongfen	/muɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwəj/
Li Rong	/muᴀi/
Wang Li	/muɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mui4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	腜
Reading #	1/1
No.	9279
Phonetic component	某
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	枚
Old Chinese	/*mɯː/

Definitions

腜

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