毐

毐	U+6BD0, 毐 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6BD0

← 每
[U+6BCF]

CJK Unified Ideographs

毑 →
[U+6BD1]

Translingual

Han character

毐 (Kangxi radical 80, 毋+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 土田十 (GWJ) or 土田十竹 (GWJH), four-corner 4055₇, composition ⿱士毋)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 589, character 4
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16727
Dae Jaweon: page 981, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2382, character 2
Unihan data for U+6BD0

Chinese

simp. and trad.		毐

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
脢	mɯːs, mɯː, *mɯːs
挴	mlɯːʔ, mɯːʔ
海	*hmlɯːʔ
毐	ʔmɯː, ʔmɯːʔ
呣	*mɯ
拇	*mɯʔ
母	*mɯʔ
胟	*mɯʔ
姆	mɯʔ, mɯs, *maːʔ
畮	*mɯʔ
踇	*mɯʔ
苺	mɯs, mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓	mɯs, mɯː, *mɯːs
敏	mrɯʔ, mrɯŋʔ
鰵	*mrɯŋʔ
慜	*mrɯŋʔ
毋	*ma
梅	*mɯː
酶	*mɯː
鋂	*mɯː
每	*mɯːʔ
毎	*mɯːs
痗	mɯːs, hmɯːs
晦	*hmɯːs
誨	*hmɯːs
悔	hmɯːʔ, hmɯːs
霉	*mrɯl

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 士 (“virtuous man”) + 毋 (“to not have”) – person with no morals.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ǎi (ai³)

(Zhuyin): ㄞˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): oi² / aai²
Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): ai³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ǎi
  - Zhuyin: ㄞˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ǎi
  - Wade–Giles: ai³
  - Yale: ǎi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ae
  - Palladius: ай (aj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: oi² / aai²
  - Yale: ói / áai
  - Cantonese Pinyin: oi² / aai²
  - Guangdong Romanization: oi² / ai²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːi̯³⁵/, /aːi̯³⁵/

Note: aai2 - variant.

Hakka
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: ai³
  - Sinological IPA: /aɪ³¹/

Middle Chinese: 'oj, 'ojX

Rime
Character	毐	毐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	烏開切	於改切
Baxter	'oj	'ojX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔʌi/	/ʔʌi^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəi/	/ʔəi^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒi/	/ʔɒi^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəj/	/ʔəj^X/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀi/	/ʔᴀi^X/
Wang Li	/ɒi/	/ɒi^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ̆i/	/ʔɑ̆i^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	āi	ǎi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	oi¹	oi²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ʔmɯː/, /*ʔmɯːʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	毐	毐
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9284	9285
Phonetic component	母	母
Rime group	之	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	哀	欸
Old Chinese	/*ʔmɯː/	/*ʔmɯːʔ/
Notes	𢮇讀莫亥切

Definitions

毐

(obsolete) a courtesy name
- 嫪姓毐字 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
  From: 司馬貞 Sima Zhen, 《史記索隱》"Seeking the Obscure in the Records of the Grand Historian", volume 2
  Lào xìng Ǎi zì [Pinyin]
  Lao ('嫪') is a surname; Ai ('毐') is a style name.
(obsolete) an immoral person

Compounds

嫪毐 (Lào'ǎi)

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B01973
“毐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–