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尾

尾 U+5C3E, 尾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3E
← 尽
[U+5C3D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尿 →
[U+5C3F]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

尾 (radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition ⿸尸毛)

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 300, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5C3E

ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.
 尾

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (尾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
娓 *mrɯls, *mɯlʔ
尾 *mɯlʔ
浘 *mɯlʔ

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of straddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • bé/bér/bóe - vernacular;
  • bí - literary.
Note: mai2 - alternative pronunciation for dialectal usage.
Rime
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 無匪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mujX/
Li
Rong 		/miuəiX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wěi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wěi
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjɨjX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[m]əjʔ/
English tail

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 尾
Reading # 1/1
No. 12882
Phonetic
component 		尾
Rime
group 		微
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		尾
Old
Chinese 		/*mɯlʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

尾

  1. tail
  2. end
  3. last; final
  4. Classifier for fish. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 尾

Further readingEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

尾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

 
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja

Etymology 1Edit

Kanji in this term
尾
お
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/wo/ → /o/.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

尾 (hiragana お, rōmaji o, historical hiragana を)

  1. a tail
  2. the foot of a mountain
  3. the end of something
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Kanji in this term
尾
び
Grade: S
on’yomi

Middle Chinese 尾

PronunciationEdit

AffixEdit

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji bi)

  1. tail
Derived termsEdit

CounterEdit

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji -bi)

  1. fish, shrimp

Proper nounEdit

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji Bi)

  1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail
SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

尾 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

尾 (vĩ, vãi, vả, vã, vải, nhân)

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