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脈

See also: 脉
脈 U+8108, 脈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8108
← 脇
[U+8107] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 脉 →
[U+8109]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

脈 (Kangxi radical 130, 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹女 (BHHV), four-corner 72232, composition ⿰月𠂢)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 982, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2068, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8108

Chinese edit

trad. 脈/脉
simp. 脉
alternative forms 衇

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (派) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庍 *qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
派 *m̥ʰreːɡs
脈 *mreːɡ
脉 *mreːɡ
衇 *mreːɡ
眽 *mreːɡ
覛 *mreːɡ, *meːɡ
霢 *mreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːɡ) : semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 𠂢 ().

Pronunciation edit

Note: mò - also used in Mainland in 脈脈.
Note:
  • măh - vernacular;
  • mĕk - literary.
Note:
  • me̍h/be̍h/me̍eh - vernacular (“blood vessels; pulse”);
  • bia̍k/be̍k - literary.
Rime
Character 脈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 耕 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫獲切
Baxter meak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/məɨjk̚/
Li
Rong 		/mɛk̚/
Wang
Li 		/mæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mak6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mɛk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.mˁ<r>[i]k/
English vein

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 脈
Reading # 1/1
No. 9642
Phonetic
component 		派
Rime
group 		錫
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		麥
Old
Chinese 		/*mreːɡ/
Notes 同衇，原依說文從血在右，
注此或體

Definitions edit

脈

  1. (traditional Chinese medicine) blood vessels; veins and arteries
  2. (traditional Chinese medicine) pulse
  3. vein of a leaf
  4. something linking up to form a blood vessel-like network, such as mountain ranges

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Shinjitai 脈
Kyūjitai
[1]
脈󠄂
脈+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
脈󠄄
脈+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji edit

脈

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
脈
みゃく
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 脈 (MC meak).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

脈(みゃく) • (myaku) 

  1. pulse
  2. chain of mountains
    山(さん)脈(みゃく)
    sanmyaku
    mountain range
  3. blood vessels
  4. hope
    彼(かれ)はまだ脈(みゃく)がある
    kare wa mada myaku ga aru
    he still has some hope

References edit

  1. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1753 (paper), page 928 (digital)
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 脈 (MC meak). Recorded as Middle Korean 脉/ᄆᆡᆨ〮 (móyk) (Yale: moyk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

脈 (eumhun 줄기 맥 (julgi maek))

  1. Hanja form? of 맥 (“vein”).
  2. Hanja form? of 맥 (“pulse”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

脈: Hán Nôm readings: mạch

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