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

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• 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–Macau)
    • 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/

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• 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/	/ʔʌiX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔəi/	/ʔəiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɒi/	/ʔɒiX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəj/	/ʔəjX/
Li Rong	/ʔᴀi/	/ʔᴀiX/
Wang Li	/ɒi/	/ɒiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑ̆i/	/ʔɑ̆iX/
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

1. (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.

2. (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)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–