蔑

Translingual

Han character

蔑 (radical 140 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 4425₃, composition ⿳艹⺫戍)

1. disdain, disregard
2. slight

References

• KangXi: page 1054, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781
• Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3279, character 8
• Unihan data for U+8511

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蔑 (Yale mit6)

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Japanese

Kanji

蔑 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: べつ (betsu)
• Kun: さげすむ (sagesumu), ないがしろ (naigashiro), ない (nai)

Compounds

• 軽蔑 (けいべつ)

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Korean

Hanja

蔑 (hangeul 멸, revised myeol, McCune-Reischauer myŏl, Yale myel)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蔑 (pinyin miè (mie4), Wade-Giles mieh⁴)

Last modified on 17 March 2013, at 10:00