浼

浼

浼 U+6D7C, 浼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6D7C ← 浻 [U+6D7B] CJK Unified Ideographs 浽 → [U+6D7D]

Translingual

Han character

浼 (radical 85, 水+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水弓日山 (ENAU), four-corner 3711₆, composition ⿰氵免)

1. to request
2. to ask a favor of
3. to pollute; to contaminate

Derived characters

• 𩄬

References

• KangXi: page 625, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17510
• Dae Jaweon: page 1027, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1631, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6D7C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		浼
variant forms		凂

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (免) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
免	*mronʔ
娩	*mronʔ, *mronʔ, *m̥ʰons, *monʔ, *mons, *muns
勉	*mronʔ
俛	*mronʔ
鮸	*mronʔ
冕	*mronʔ
絻	*mronʔ, *moːn, *muns
婏	*m̥ʰos
浼	*muːlʔ
鞔	*moːn
悗	*moːn
嬎	*m̥ʰons
晚	*monʔ
挽	*monʔ
輓	*monʔ, *mons
脕	*monʔ, *mons, *muns
莬	*muns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *muːlʔ) : semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 免 (OC *mronʔ)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měi (mei³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mui⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: měi
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˇ
    • Wade–Giles: mei³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meei
    • IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mui⁵
    • Yale: múih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mui⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mui⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /muːy̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /muʌi^X/▼

Rime
Character	浼
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	武罪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/muoiX/
Shao Rongfen	/muɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwəjX/
Li Rong	/muᴀiX/
Wang Li	/muɒiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑ̆iX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měi

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤ[u]rʔ/, /*mˤərʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*muːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	浼	浼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	měi	měi
Middle Chinese	‹ mwojX ›	‹ mwojX ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁ[u]rʔ/	/*mˁərʔ/
English	defile (v.)	smoothly flowing water
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	浼
Reading #	1/1
No.	9074
Phonetic component	免
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	浼
Old Chinese	/*muːlʔ/

Definitions

浼

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Compounds

央浼 央浼營幹／央浼营干

浼人親行／浼人亲行

浼浼

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Japanese

Kanji

浼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to request
2. to ask a favor of

Readings

• On (unclassified): ばい (bai); まい (mai); ばん (ban); まん (man)
• Kun: けがす (kegasu)

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Korean

Hanja

浼 (eum 매 (mae))

1. Hanja form^? of 매 (“to besmirch; to request”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

浼: Hán Việt readings: mỗi[1]

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References

1. Trần (2004).