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迷

See also: 述
迷 U+8FF7, 迷
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FF7
← 迶
[U+8FF6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 迸 →
[U+8FF8]

Translingual

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Han character

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迷 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜火木 (YFD), four-corner 39309, composition ⿺辶米)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1255, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38825
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1739, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3832, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8FF7

Chinese

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trad. 迷
simp. # 迷

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 迷
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
 
Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謎 *miː, *miːs
迷 *miː
米 *miːʔ
眯 *miːʔ
洣 *miːʔ
蔝 *miːʔ
麊 *me
冞 *me
糜 *mral
敉 *meʔ
侎 *meʔ
麋 *mril
蘪 *mril
攗 *mril

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *miː) : semantic 辵 (“walk”) + phonetic 米 (OC *miːʔ)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 迷
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫兮切
Baxter mej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛj/
Li
Rong 		/mei/
Wang
Li 		/miei/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/miei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 迷
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁij/
English go astray

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 迷
Reading # 1/1
No. 9002
Phonetic
component 		米
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		迷
Old
Chinese 		/*miː/

Definitions

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迷

  1. to get lost
    迷路  ―  mílù  ―  to get lost; to lose one's way
  2. to confuse; to bewilder
  3. to bewitch; to charm; to infatuate
    迷人  ―  mírén  ―  charming
  4. to be obsessed; to be crazy about
  5. confused; bewildered
  6. obsessed; crazy about
  7. fan (fanatic)
    歌迷  ―  gēmí  ―  fan of a singer

Synonyms

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  • (fan):

Compounds

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (迷):
  • → Vietnamese: mê (迷)

Japanese

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Shinjitai 迷
Kyūjitai
[1]
迷󠄁
迷+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
迷󠄃
迷+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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迷

(Fifth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to be lost

Readings

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Compounds

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References

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  1. ^ “迷”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024

Korean

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Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 迷 (MC mej). Recorded as Middle Korean 미 (mi) (Yale: mi) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

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Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

迷 (eumhun 미혹할 미 (mihokhal mi))

  1. hanja form? of 미 (“to get lost”)
  2. hanja form? of 미 (“confusion”)

Compounds

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Compounds

References

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  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Vietnamese

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Han character

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迷: Hán Nôm readings: mê, mài, mế, mơ, muồi, me

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