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U+5C3E, 尾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3E

[U+5C3D]
CJK Unified Ideographs 尿
[U+5C3F]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 44, +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5C3E

Chinese

More information simp. and trad., alternative forms ...

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 尾, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (person) + (hair; feather).

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (tail; penis) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (tail), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, tail; crupper of saddle), Chepang मेः (meʔ, tail), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, tail).

Pronunciation


Note: mei5-1 - "last".
Note:
  • buei3 - vernacular;
  • bi3 - literary.

More information Rime, Character ...
More information Character, Reading # ...
More information Zhengzhang system (2003), Character ...

Definitions

  1. tail (Classifier: c;  mn)
  2. end
  3. last; final
  4. Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. all nouns using this classifier
  5. (~宿) (Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

Synonyms

  • (tail):
  • (classifier):

Compounds

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