霾

霾 U+973E, 霾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-973E ← 霽 [U+973D] CJK Unified Ideographs 霿 → [U+973F]

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

霾 (radical 173, 雨+14, 22 strokes, cangjie input 一月月竹土 (MBBHG), four-corner 1021₄, composition ⿱雨貍)

ReferencesEdit

• KangXi: page 1379, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42507
• Dae Jaweon: page 1889, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4081, character 7
• Unihan data for U+973E

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		霾

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (里) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
埋	*mrɯː
霾	*mrɯː
薶	*mrɯː
榸	*ʔr'ɯː
厘	*rɯ
狸	*rɯ
貍	*p·rɯ
梩	*rɯ
艃	*rɯ
里	*rɯʔ
理	*rɯʔ
鯉	*rɯʔ
俚	*rɯʔ
悝	*rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌	*rɯʔ
裏	*rɯʔ
荲	*r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯː): semantic 雨 + phonetic 貍 (OC *p·rɯ).

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mái (mai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁴, lei⁴, mai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mái
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˊ
    • Wade–Giles: mai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mai
    • IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maai⁴, lei⁴, mai⁴
    • Yale: màaih, lèih, màih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁴, lei⁴, mai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁴, léi⁴, mei⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːi̯²¹/, /lei̯²¹/, /mɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠɛi/▼

Rime
Character	霾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛi/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæi/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məɨj/
Li Rong	/mɛi/
Wang Li	/mɐi/
Bernard Karlgren	/măi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mái

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	霾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mái
Middle Chinese	‹ mɛj ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤrə/
English	whirlwind
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	霾
Reading #	1/1
No.	7818
Phonetic component	里
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	埋
Old Chinese	/*mrɯː/

DefinitionsEdit

霾

1. misty; foggy
2. dust storm

CompoundsEdit

• 陰霾／阴霾 (yīnmái)

• 霾晦

• 風霾／风霾

ReferencesEdit

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

霾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): ばい (bai)
• Kun: つちふる (tsuchifuru), つちぐもり (tsuchigumori)

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KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

霾 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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