爢

爢 U+7222, 爢 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7222 ← 爡 [U+7221] CJK Unified Ideographs 爣 → [U+7223]

Translingual

Han character

爢 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+19, 23 strokes, cangjie input 戈卜火 (IYF), four-corner 0021₁, composition ⿸靡灬)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 688, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19626
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2250, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7222

Chinese

trad.		爢
simp. #		爢

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (麻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
麻	*mraːl
痲	*mraːl
犘	*mraːl
縻	*mral
醿	*mral
爢	*mral
蘼	*mral, *mralʔ, *mrɯl
靡	*mralʔ
摩	*maːl, *maːls
魔	*maːl
磨	*maːl, *maːls
劘	*maːl
麽	*maːl
麼	*maːlʔ
塺	*maːls, *mɯːl
麾	*hmral

Etymology 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mí (mi²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mí
    • Wade–Giles: mi²
    • Yale: mí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mi
    • Palladius: ми (mi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mei⁴
    • Yale: mèih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: méi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mei̯²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mral/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	爢
Reading #	1/1
No.	8699
Phonetic component	麻
Rime group	歌
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	糜
Old Chinese	/*mral/
Notes	通作糜

Definitions

爢

1. fragment; particle; piece; scrap; crumb

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 爢 – see 靡 (“extravagant; wasteful; to waste; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 靡).