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蔑

See also: 衊

Translingual

Han character

蔑 (radical 140 艸+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 4425₃, composition ⿳艹罒戍)

to ignore, to slight, to disregard
to condemn, to disdain

Synonyms

(ignore): 藐
(condemn): 鄙

Antonyms

Derived characters

幭瀎懱櫗礣襪蠛衊鑖韈韤鱴

References

KangXi: page 1054, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781

Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3279, character 8

Unihan data for U+8511

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蔑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蔑) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
礣	*mreːd
蔑	meːd, meːd
篾	*meːd
蠛	*meːd
懱	*meːd
幭	*meːd
鱴	*meːd
衊	*meːd
瀎	meːd, maːd
襪	*mad
韤	*mad
韈	*mad

Pronunciation

Mandarin

(Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶
Min Nan (POJ): bia̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
  - Pinyin: miè
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
  - Wade-Giles: mieh⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mit⁶
  - Yale: miht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
  - IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bia̍t
  - Tâi-lô: bia̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biat
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛt̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛt̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛt̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: /met̚/▼

Rime
Character	蔑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/met̚/
Pan Wuyun	/met̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛt̚/
Li Rong	/met̚/
Wang Li	/miet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/miet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miè

Old Chinese▼

(Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤet/

(Zhengzhang): /*meːd/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miè
Middle Chinese	‹ met ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤet/
English	destroy; not have
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	蔑	蔑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9116	9118
Phonetic component	蔑	蔑
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔑	蔑
Old Chinese	/*meːd/	/*meːd/
Notes	金文從伐𥄕聲或眉聲，兼殺滅伐功義

Definitions

蔑

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Japanese

Kanji

蔑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

On: べつ (betsu)

Kun: さげすむ (sagesumu), ないがしろ (naigashiro), なみする (namisuru), ない (nai)

Compounds

軽蔑 (けいべつ)
蔑称 (べっしょう)

Korean

Hanja

蔑 • ‎(myeol) (hangeul 멸, revised myeol, McCune-Reischauer myŏl, Yale myel)

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