乜

See also: セ and ㆤ

乜 U+4E5C, 乜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E5C ← 乛 [U+4E5B] CJK Unified Ideographs 九 → [U+4E5D]

Translingual

Han character

乜 (radical 5, 乙+1, 2 strokes, cangjie input 心弓 (PN) or 心尸 (PS) or X心弓 (XPN), four-corner 4771₂, composition ⿻乛乚 or ⿻𠃌乚)

Derived characters

• 𭑫, 𦘮, 𭴂, 𤘗, 𮓲, 𠬫

References

• KangXi: page 83, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 166
• Dae Jaweon: page 168, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 49, character 9
• Unihan data for U+4E5C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		乜

Etymology

Compare Zhuang maz (“what”).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miē (mie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou, Jyutping): mat¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): mot²

• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): mih⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: miē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
    • Wade–Giles: mieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mie
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mat¹
    • Yale: māt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mat⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: med¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐt̚⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: mot²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵐbᵘɔt̚⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mih⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mih
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miʔ²/

Definitions

乜

1. (Cantonese, Teochew) what

   要啲乜？ [Cantonese]  ―  Jiu³ di¹ mat¹? [Jyutping]  ―  What do you want?

   愛乜個？ / 爱乜个？ [Teochew]  ―  Ain³ mih⁴ gai⁵? [Peng'im]  ―  What do you want?

2. (Cantonese) anything; everything

   乜都得 [Cantonese]  ―  mat¹ dou¹ dak¹ [Jyutping]  ―  anything goes

3. (Cantonese) why; how come

   乜你咁傻㗎？ [Cantonese]  ―  Mat¹ nei⁵ gam³ so⁴ gaa³? [Jyutping]  ―  How come you're so stupid?

4. (Cantonese) Used at the beginning of a question to give a rhetorical effect.

   乜你未食飯㗎？ [Cantonese, trad.]
   乜你未食饭㗎？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   Mat¹ nei⁵ mei⁶ sik⁶ faan⁶ gaa⁴? [Jyutping]

   So you haven't eaten yet?

   乜仲未有佢嘅消息咩？ [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   Mat¹ zung⁶ mei⁶ jau⁵ keoi⁵ ge³ siu¹ sik¹ me¹? [Jyutping]

   So we still don't have any news about him?

5. (dialectal Mandarin) that

Synonyms

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miē (mie¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹, me², me⁵
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): mi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: miē
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
    • Wade–Giles: mieh¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mie
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɛ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: me¹, me², me⁵
    • Yale: mē, mé, méh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: me¹, me², me⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mé¹, mé², mé⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/, /mɛː³⁵/, /mɛː¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mi¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /mia^X/▼

Rime
Character	乜
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	彌也切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miaX/
Pan Wuyun	/miaX/
Shao Rongfen	/miaX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miaX/
Li Rong	/miaX/
Wang Li	/mĭaX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯aX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miě

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*mjaːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	乜
Reading #	1/1
No.	9114
Phonetic component	乜
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	乜
Old Chinese	/*mjaːʔ/

Definitions

乜

1. to narrow one's eyes and squint

Compounds

• 乜乜屑屑
• 乜乜斜斜

• 乜乜踅踅
• 乜斜 (miēxie)

• 乜斜眼
• 乜斜纏帳／乜斜缠帐

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Niè (Nie⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ne⁶
• Min Nan (Teochew, Peng'im): nian⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: Niè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄧㄝˋ
    • Wade–Giles: nieh⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Nieh
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Niè
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /njɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ne⁶
    • Yale: neh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ne⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: né⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɛː²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: nian⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: niāⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nĩã¹¹/

Definitions

乜

1. A surname​, listed 126th in the Baijiaxing.

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Japanese

Kanji

乜

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. to squint

Readings

• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ば (ba)
• Kun: やぶにらみ (yabunirami, 乜み)

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Korean

Hanja

乜 (eumhun 사팔뜨기 먀 (sapaltteugi mya))

1. (offensive, derogatory, vulgar) a cross-eyed, squint-eyed person

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Vietnamese

Han character

乜: Hán Việt readings: khiết

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References