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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: méi
Preclassic Old Chinese: mrǝj
Classic Old Chinese: mrǝj
Western Han Chinese: mrǝj
Eastern Han Chinese: mrǝj
Early Postclassic Chinese: mij
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mij
Late Postclassic Chinese: mi
Middle Chinese: mi
English meaning : eyebrow; bank, coast; edge; moment
Russian meaning[s]: 1) брови; 2) край, рамка; поля (вверху страницы)
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is mi. For *m- cf. Xiamen mai2, bai2, Chaozhou bai2, Fuzhou mi2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 109
Four-angle index: 1679
Karlgren code: 0567 a-c
Vietnamese reading: mày
Jianchuan Bai: -me4
Dali Bai: -me5
Bijiang Bai: -mie2
Shijing occurrences: 57.2_
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