霾

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 雨 + phonetic 貍

Han character

霾 (radical 173 雨+14, 22 strokes, cangjie input 一月月竹土 (MBBHG), four-corner 1021₄)

1. misty, foggy
2. dust storm

References

• KangXi: page 1379, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42507
• Dae Jaweon: page 1889, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4081, character 7
• Unihan data for U+973E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

霾 (Yale maai4)

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Japanese

Kanji

霾

Readings

• On: ばい (bai)
• Kun: つちふる (tsuchifuru), つちぐもり (tsuchigumori)

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Korean

Hanja

霾 (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

霾 (pinyin mái (mai2), Wade-Giles mai²)

Last modified on 14 January 2013, at 02:53