楣

楣

楣 U+6963, 楣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6963 ← 楢 [U+6962] CJK Unified Ideographs 楤 → [U+6964]

Translingual

Han character

楣 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木日竹山 (DAHU), four-corner 4796₇, composition ⿰木眉)

References

• KangXi: page 540, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15155
• Dae Jaweon: page 928, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1257, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6963

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		楣

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眉	*mril
楣	*mril
嵋	*bril
湄	*mril
鶥	*mril
瑂	*mril
郿	*mril, *mrils
葿	*mril
媚	*mrils
篃	*mrils
蝞	*mrills
煝	*mrils

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méi (mei²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴

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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)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁴
    • Yale: mèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠiɪ/

Rime
Character	楣
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武悲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚi/
Shao Rongfen	/miɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mji/
Li Rong	/mji/
Wang Li	/mi/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mei4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mril/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	楣
Reading #	1/1
No.	8939
Phonetic component	眉
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	眉
Old Chinese	/*mril/

Definitions

楣

1. lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate

   中楣 [Cantonese]  ―  zung³ mei⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to shoot a ball onto the horizontal beam of the goal (in football)

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Japanese

Kanji

楣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate

Readings

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi)
• Kun: かもい (kamoi); ひさし (hisashi); まぐさ (magusa)

Compounds

• 楣間(びかん) (bikan)
• 楣(び)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (bishiki kōzō)
• 門楣(もんび) (monbi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
楣
まぐさ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative spelling
目草

From Old Japanese. First cited to a text from 762.[1]

Compound of 目 (ma, combining form of me, “eye; opening”) +‎ 種 (kusa, “material, piece”, also spelled 草 in various compounds).[1][2][3]The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まぐさ [màgúsá] (Heiban – [0])[3]
• (Tokyo) まぐさ​ [màgúsáꜜ] (Odaka – [3])[3]
• IPA^(key): [ma̠ɡɯ̟ᵝsa̠]

Noun

楣(まぐさ) • (magusa) 

1. [from 762] (architecture, construction, carpentry) a lintel

   Hyponyms: 鴨居 (kamoi, “a lintel with grooves for a sliding window or door”), 無目 (mume, “a lintel lacking grooves for a sliding window or door”), 蹴放 (kehanashi, “lower door lintel”, literally “kick-off”), 窓台 (madodai, “lower window lintel”)

   Hypernyms: 横材 (yokozai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 横架材 (ōkazai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 水平材 (suiheizai, “horizontal support, crosspiece”), 横木 (yokogi, “wooden crosspiece”)

Derived terms

• 楣(まぐさ)石(いし) (magusa ishi, “a lintel stone”)
• 楣(まぐさ)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (magusa-shiki kōzō, “trabeated construction”)

References

1. “楣”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN
2. “楣目草”, in デジタル大辞泉 (Dejitaru Daijisen)‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

楣: Hán Nôm readings: me

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