Translingual

Han character

咩 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口廿手 (RTQ), four-corner 6805₁, composition ⿰口羊)

1. the bleating of sheep

References

• KangXi: page 186, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3540
• Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 622, character 5
• Unihan data for U+54A9

Cantonese

Hanzi

咩 ‎(Jyutping me1, Yale me1)

1. an interrogative particle

   唔係咩？ / 唔系咩？ [Cantonese]  ―  M⁴ hai⁶me¹? [Jyutping]  ―  It's not?

2. what

   欸！喺度諗緊咩呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]

   欸！喺度谂紧咩呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]

   From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館

   E¹! Hai² dou⁶ nam² gan²me¹ aa³? [Jyutping]

   Hey, so what are you thinking about?

   咩呀？ [Cantonese]  ―  Me¹ aa³? [Jyutping]  ―  What do you want?/What is it?

3. which

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: び (bi), み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

咩 • ‎(mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

咩 ‎(Pinyin miē (mie1), Wade-Giles mieh¹)

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