Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 米

Modern (Beijing) reading: mǐ

Preclassic Old Chinese: mhījʔ (~ ē)

Classic Old Chinese: mhī́j

Western Han Chinese: mhjǝ̄́j

Eastern Han Chinese: mhiǝ̄́j

Early Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj

Late Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj

Middle Chinese: míej

English meaning : peeled grain, rice

Russian meaning[s]: 1) рис в зернах; очищенное зерно; обрушенный рис; крупа; 2) зерновые; 3) сокр. метр; 4) Ми (фамилия)

Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is mễ; Viet. mạ 'rice seedlings' is somewhat different semantically and not quite clear phonetically (vowel, tone) - thus a purely chance resemblance is not excluded. For *mh- cf. Jianou mi⁸.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 119

Four-angle index: 5306

Karlgren code: 0598 a-c

Vietnamese reading: mạ

Jianchuan Bai: me1

Dali Bai: mer1-, me1

Bijiang Bai: mi1

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mījH

Meaning: rice, paddy

Chinese: 米 *mhījʔ rice.

Kachin: ma¹ paddy.

Comments: Thankur ma paddy; BG: Bodo may, Garo mi, Dimasa mai; Pwo, Sgaw me boiled rice. Ben. 65, 128, 149. Cf. Austric: PAN *Semay 'rice', PAA *ma / *ma:l 'seed' (Peiros 1998, 222).

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 291

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 米

MC description : 蟹開四上薺明

ZIHUI: 4717 0559

Beijing: mi 2

Jinan: mi 2

Xi'an: mi 2

Taiyuan: mi 2

Hankou: mi 2

Chengdu: mi 2

Yangzhou: mi 2

Suzhou: mi 32

Wenzhou: mi 22

Changsha: mi 2

Shuangfeng: mi 2

Nanchang: mi 2

Meixian: mi 2

Guangzhou: mai 22

Xiamen: bi 2

Chaozhou: bi 21

Fuzhou: mi 2

Shanghai: mi 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: mi 2

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