霉

See also: 黴
霉 U+9709, 霉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9709
← 霈
[U+9708] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 霊 →
[U+970A]

Translingual

Han character

霉 (radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月人田卜 (MBOWY), four-corner 10507, composition ⿱⻗每)

References
  • KangXi: page 1375, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42302
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1884, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4065, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9709

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 霉

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脢 *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴 *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海 *hmlɯːʔ
毐 *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣 *mɯ
拇 *mɯʔ
母 *mɯʔ
胟 *mɯʔ
姆 *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮 *mɯʔ
踇 *mɯʔ
苺 *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓 *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏 *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵 *mrɯŋʔ
慜 *mrɯŋʔ
毋 *ma
梅 *mɯː
酶 *mɯː
鋂 *mɯː
每 *mɯːʔ
毎 *mɯːs
痗 *mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦 *hmɯːs
誨 *hmɯːs
悔 *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉 *mrɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯl) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • mui4 - colloquial;
  • mei4 - variant.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 霉
Reading # 1/1
No. 9320
Phonetic
component		 母
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 眉
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯl/
Notes 黴晚起分化字

Definitions

霉

  1. to become moldy; mildewed
Compounds

References

Glyph origin

Designated as the simplified form of 黴 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (漢字簡化方案) (1956).

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 霉 – see 黴 (“mold; mildew; must”).
(This character, 霉, is the simplified and variant form of 黴.)
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji
霉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Readings
  • On (unclassified): ばい (bai); め (me)
  • Kun: つゆ (tsuyu); しめり (shimeri); しみ (shimi)

Korean

Hanja

霉 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Vietnamese

Han character

霉 (mai, môi)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.