穈

穈 U+7A48, 穈 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A48 ← 穇 [U+7A47] CJK Unified Ideographs 穉 → [U+7A49]

Translingual

Han character

穈 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 戈木竹木 (IDHD), four-corner 0029₄, composition ⿸麻禾)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 859, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25257
• Dae Jaweon: page 1284, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2630, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7A48

Chinese

Etymology 1

trad.		穈
simp. #		穈
alternative forms		虋

Compare Tibetan དམར (dmar, “red”) (Sagart, 2018).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mén (men²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mén
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mén
    • Wade–Giles: mên²
    • Yale: mén
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: men
    • Palladius: мэнь (mɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mən³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mun⁴
    • Yale: mùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹/

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• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤur/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	穈
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mén
Middle Chinese	‹ mwon ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁur/
English	red millet
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.

Definitions

穈

1. (obsolete) red millet

   • 誕降嘉種、維秬維秠、維穈維芑。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     诞降嘉种、维秬维秠、维穈维芑。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Dànjiàng jiāzhǒng, wéi jù wéi pī, wéi mén wéi qǐ. [Pinyin]

     He gave his people the beautiful grains: The black millet, and the double-kernelled; The tall red, and the white.

Etymology 2

trad.		穈
simp. #		穈

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “same word as 糜?”)

Pronunciation

• 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/

Definitions

穈

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Japanese

Kanji

穈

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼん (bon)、もん (mon)、び (bi)、み (mi)