薶

薶 U+85B6, 薶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85B6 ← 薵 [U+85B5] CJK Unified Ideographs 薷 → [U+85B7]

Translingual

Han character

薶 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿月竹土 (TBHG), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱艹貍)

1. to bury, to stop up
2. dirty, filthy

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 52
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32198
• Dae Jaweon: page 1527, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3314, character 10
• Unihan data for U+85B6

Chinese

trad.		薶
simp. #		薶

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
埋	*mrɯː
霾	*mrɯː
薶	*mrɯː
榸	*ʔr'ɯː
厘	*rɯ
狸	*rɯ
貍	*p·rɯ
梩	*rɯ
艃	*rɯ
里	*rɯʔ
理	*rɯʔ
鯉	*rɯʔ
俚	*rɯʔ
悝	*rɯʔ, *km̥ʰlɯː
娌	*rɯʔ
裏	*rɯʔ
荲	*r̥ʰɯɡ, *l̥ʰuɡ, *hluɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mái (mai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mái
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mái
    • Wade–Giles: mai²
    • Yale: mái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mai
    • Palladius: май (maj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maai⁴
    • Yale: màaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: meaj

Rime
Character	薶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫皆切
Baxter	meaj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛi/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæi/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məɨj/
Li Rong	/mɛi/
Wang Li	/mɐi/
Bernhard Karlgren	/măi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mái
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.rˤə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	薶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mái
Middle Chinese	‹ mɛj ›
Old Chinese	/*m.rˁə/
English	bury
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	薶
Reading #	1/1
No.	7819
Phonetic component	里
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	埋
Old Chinese	/*mrɯː/
Notes	同埋

Definitions

薶

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Japanese

Kanji

薶

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. Alternative form of 埋

Readings

• Go-on: まい (mai)、め (me)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Kun: うずめる (uzumeru, 薶める)