氼

氼 U+6C3C, 氼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C3C ← 氻 [U+6C3B] CJK Unified Ideographs 氽 → [U+6C3D]

Translingual

Han character

氼 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水人 (EO) or 難水人 (XEO), composition ⿱水𠆢)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 603, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17099
• Dae Jaweon: page 997, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1547, character 2
• Unihan data for U+6C3C

Chinese

simp. and trad.		氼
alternative forms		沕 昧 味 沒／没

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 水 (“water”) + 人 (“man”).

Etymology 1

Attested in Lingwai Daida (1178) among local characters used in Guangxi: 「氼，音魅，言沒人在水下也。」

Related to Hokkien 沬 (bī), Eastern Min 沬 (mê), Hakka 沕 (mi⁴), Xiang 沕 (mei⁵) (note that they all have tone 陽去).

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mei⁶
    • Yale: meih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²²/

Definitions

氼

1. (chiefly Cantonese) to dive, to submerge

Compounds

• 氼水
• 氼鏡／氼镜

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 氼 – see 溺 (“to drown; to submerge; to indulge; to be addicted; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 溺).