邁

See also: 迈 and 遇

邁 U+9081, 邁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9081 ← 邀 [U+9080] CJK Unified Ideographs 邂 → [U+9082]

Translingual

Han character

邁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田月 (YTWB), four-corner 3430₂, composition ⿺辶萬)

Derived characters

• 𫬱, 𧮇

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39169
• Dae Jaweon: page 1764, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3880, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9081

Chinese

trad.		邁
simp.		迈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邁
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
糲	*m·raːds, *m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	*m·raːds, *m·rads
噧	*hmreːds, *r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	*m·rads, *mlans
萬	*mlans

Etymology

“mile; kilometer per hour”

From English mile.

“carry on the back”

Probably a Kra-Dai substrate. Compare Zhuang maq (“to carry on the back”), Mulao ma⁵ (“to carry on the back”), Maonan ʔma⁵ (“to carry on the back”). Cognate with Cantonese 孭 / 𱙷 (me¹, “to carry on the back”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mài (mai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mai
• Eastern Min (BUC): mâi
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): māi / mai

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mài
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mài
    • Wade–Giles: mai⁴
    • Yale: mài
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may
    • Palladius: май (maj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong–Macau)
    • Jyutping: maai⁶
    • Yale: maaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mai
    • Hakka Romanization System: mai
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mai⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /mai̯⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mâi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑi²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: māi
    • Tâi-lô: māi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mai
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mãi³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mãi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãi²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mai
    • Tâi-lô: mai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: may
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mãi⁴⁴/

Note: mai - “mile”.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mai⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: măi
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mai³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: maejH

Rime
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	夬 (29)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫話切
Baxter	maejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠaiH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaiH/
Shao Rongfen	/maiH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjsH/
Li Rong	/maiH/
Wang Li	/mæiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/maiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrat-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mài
Middle Chinese	‹ mæjH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrat-s/
English	proceed, march
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	邁
Reading #	1/1
No.	12618
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邁
Old Chinese	/*mraːds/

Definitions

邁

1. to go on a long journey
2. to stride; to take a step
3. to pass by; to surpass
4. old; elderly
5. mile
6. (colloquial, in varieties that don't use 碼) kilometer per hour
7. alternative form of 勱 / 劢 (mài)
8. a surname
9. (Northern Min, Eastern Min) carry on the back
10. Used in transcription.

    邁克爾／迈克尔  ―  Màikè'ěr  ―  Michael

    艾哈邁德／艾哈迈德  ―  Àihāmàidé  ―  Ahmad

    邁阿密／迈阿密  ―  Mài'āmì  ―  Miami

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 背負 (“to carry on the back”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		負
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		背負
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	背
	Taiwan	背
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	背
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	背
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	背
	Wuhan	背, 馱
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	背, 馱
	Hefei	背, 馱
Cantonese	Guangzhou	孭
	Hong Kong	孭
	Taishan	孭
	Yangjiang	孭
Gan	Nanchang	馱, 背
Hakka	Meixian	背, 揹2
Jin	Taiyuan	背
Northern Min	Jian'ou	騎, 邁
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	邁
Southern Min	Xiamen	背, 揹3, 偝
	Quanzhou	偝
	Jinjiang	偝
	Zhangzhou	揹3, 偝
	Taipei	揹3, 偝
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	揹3, 偝
	Kaohsiung	揹3, 偝
	Yilan	揹3, 偝
	Changhua (Lukang)	揹3, 偝
	Taichung	揹3, 偝
	Tainan	揹3, 偝
	Hsinchu	揹3, 偝
	Kinmen	背, 偝
	Penghu (Magong)	背, 揹3, 偝
	Penang (Hokkien)	偝
	Manila (Hokkien)	偝
	Chaozhou	背
Wu	Suzhou	背
	Wenzhou	背, 擐
Xiang	Changsha	背
	Shuangfeng	背

Compounds

• 俊邁 / 俊迈
• 年邁 / 年迈 (niánmài)
• 引邁 / 引迈
• 抗邁 / 抗迈
• 日月逾邁 / 日月逾迈
• 昏邁 / 昏迈
• 時邁 / 时迈
• 朽邁 / 朽迈
• 澄邁 / 澄迈 (Chéngmài)
• 瑰邁 / 瑰迈
• 老邁 / 老迈 (lǎomài)
• 老邁龍鍾 / 老迈龙钟
• 英姿邁往 / 英姿迈往
• 英特邁往 / 英特迈往
• 衰邁 / 衰迈
• 豪放雄邁 / 豪放雄迈
• 豪邁 / 豪迈 (háomài)
• 豪邁不群 / 豪迈不群
• 超然邁倫 / 超然迈伦
• 超邁絕倫 / 超迈绝伦
• 逾邁 / 逾迈
• 邁上 / 迈上
• 邁世 / 迈世
• 邁入 / 迈入 (màirù)
• 邁向 / 迈向 (màixiàng)
• 邁往 / 迈往
• 邁方步 / 迈方步
• 邁步 / 迈步 (màibù)
• 邁步猛進 / 迈步猛进
• 邁越常流 / 迈越常流
• 邁跡 / 迈迹
• 邁進 / 迈进 (màijìn)
• 邁達 / 迈达
• 邁過隅頭 / 迈过隅头
• 邁錫尼城 / 迈锡尼城
• 邁開 / 迈开 (màikāi)
• 邁阿密 / 迈阿密 (Mài'āmì)
• 長邁 / 长迈
• 風邁 / 风迈
• 高情邁俗 / 高情迈俗
• 高節邁俗 / 高节迈俗
• 高邁 / 高迈

References

• “邁”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 邁

邁

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to go, to advance

Readings

• Go-on: まい (mai)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: ゆく (yuku, 邁く)、すすむ (susumu, 邁む)、すぎる (sugiru, 邁ぎる)、つとめる (tsutomeru, 邁める)
• Nanori: すぐる (suguru)、すすむ (susumu)、つとむ (tsutomu)

Compounds

• 邁(まい)進(しん) (maishin, “to advance forward”)
• 高(こう)邁(まい) (kōmai)

Korean

Hanja

邁 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邁: Hán Nôm readings: mại, mời, mười

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