眄

眄

眄 U+7704, 眄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7704 ← 眃 [U+7703] CJK Unified Ideographs 眅 → [U+7705]

Translingual

Han character

眄 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山一中尸 (BUMLS), four-corner 6102₇, composition ⿰目丏)

1. to look askance
2. looking dull

Derived characters

• 㴐

References

• KangXi: page 802, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23182
• Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2472, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7704

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		眄
alternative forms		䀎

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
汅	*menʔ
沔	*menʔ
丏	*meːnʔ
眄	*meːnʔ, *meːns
麪	*meːns

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miǎn, miàn (mian³, mian⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ, ㄇㄧㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): min⁵, min⁶
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bián / biān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): miang² / miêng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
    • Wade–Giles: mien³
    • Yale: myǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
    • Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛn²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miàn
    • Wade–Giles: mien⁴
    • Yale: myàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miann
    • Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛn⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: min⁵, min⁶
    • Yale: míhn, mihn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: min⁵, min⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: min⁵, min⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːn¹³/, /miːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián / biān
    • Tâi-lô: bián / biān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biern, bien
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁵⁵⁴/, /biɛn⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹/, /biɛn³³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: miang² / miêng²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: miáng / miéng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miaŋ⁵²/, /mieŋ⁵²/

Note:

• miang2 - Shantou;
• miêng2 - Chaozhou.

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• Middle Chinese: /men^X/, /men^H/

Rime
Character	眄	眄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	彌殄切	莫甸切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/menX/	/menH/
Pan Wuyun	/menX/	/menH/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛnX/	/mɛnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛnX/	/mɛnH/
Li Rong	/menX/	/menH/
Wang Li	/mienX/	/mienH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mienX/	/mienH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎn	miàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	min5	min6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤe[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*meːnʔ/, /*meːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	眄
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ menX ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁe[n]ʔ/
English	look askance
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	眄	眄
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9061	9063
Phonetic component	丏	丏
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	㨠	麫
Old Chinese	/*meːnʔ/	/*meːns/

Definitions

眄

1. ^† to look sideways; to look askance; to give a sidelong glance
2. ^† to look; to gaze

Compounds

凝眄 恩眄 流眄 (liúmiǎn) 渥眄

眄眄 眄睨 睇眄

美眄 眄睞／眄睐 顧眄／顾眄

References

• “眄”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

眄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. looking askance

Readings

• Go-on: めん (men)
• Kan-on: べん (ben)
• Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru, 眄みる); ながしめ (nagashime); みる (miru, 眄る)

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Korean

Hanja

眄 (eum 면 (myeon))

1. to look askance
2. looking dull