咩

See also: 羋 and 哶

咩	U+54A9, 咩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A9

← 咨
[U+54A8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咪 →
[U+54AA]

Translingual

Han character

咩 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口廿手 (RTQ), four-corner 6805₁, composition ⿰口羊)

References

KangXi: page 186, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3540
Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 34
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 622, character 5
Unihan data for U+54A9

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咩
alt. forms		羋／芈𠴟哶

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miē (mie¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ
Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): me / meh / me̍h / mia

(Teochew, Peng'im): mêh⁸ / mêh⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: miē
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
  - Wade–Giles: mieh¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: me¹
  - Yale: mē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: me¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mé¹
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: me
  - Tâi-lô: me
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mef
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mẽ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh
  - Tâi-lô: meh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mẽʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: me̍h
  - Tâi-lô: me̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meh
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mia
  - Tâi-lô: mia
  - Phofsit Daibuun: miaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /miã⁴⁴/

Note:

Xiamen:
- me - vernacular;
- mia - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mêh⁸ / mêh⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: me̍h / meh
  - IPA ^(key): /meʔ⁴/, /meʔ²/

Definitions

咩

baa! (the bleating of a sheep)

Compounds

羊咩

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		咩

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: me¹
  - Yale: mē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: me¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mé¹
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

咩

(Cantonese)

An interrogative particle.

唔係咩？ / 唔系咩？ [Cantonese] ― M⁴ hai⁶ me¹? [Jyutping] ― It's not?
Contraction of 乜嘢 (mat1 je5).

欸！喺度諗緊咩呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
欸！喺度谂紧咩呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]
From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館
E¹! Hai² dou⁶ nam² gan² me¹ aa³? [Jyutping]
Hey, so what are you thinking about?

咩呀？ [Cantonese] ― Me¹ aa³? [Jyutping] ― What do you want?/What is it?
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Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 什麼 (“what”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		什麼
Mandarin	Beijing	什麼
	Taiwan	什麼
	Tianjin	嘛
	Harbin	啥
	Shenyang	什麼、啥
	Jinan	麼兒、麼、什麼
	Muping	麼、麼個
	Luoyang	啥
	Jiedian	色
	Xi'an	啥
	Xining	啥
	Xuzhou	啥、啥子
	Yinchuan	啥
	Ürümqi	啥
	Wuhan	麼事
	Chengdu	啥、啥子
	Guiyang	哪樣
	Liuzhou	什嗎
	Kunming	什麼
	Nanjing	什麼
	Hefei	哄個
	Nantong	甚呢
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乜、乜嘢、乜嘢嘢、咩、咩嘢
	Hong Kong	乜、乜嘢、乜嘢嘢、咩、咩嘢
	Dongguan	乜、乜嘢
	Taishan	乜
	Yangjiang	乜、乜嘢
Gan	Nanchang	什哩
	Lichuan	什仔
	Pingxiang	咋個
Hakka	Meixian	麼個
	Xingning	麼個
	Huidong	麼個
	Qujiang	麼個
	Xiaosanjiang	麼個
	Changting	麼個
	Pingyu	麼個
	Wuping	麼個
	Liancheng	麼個
	Yudu	子個
	Ruijin	咩、唔幾
	Shicheng	什麼
	Shangyou	哪項、口哪
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	麼個
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	麼個
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	麼個
	Dongshi (Dabu)	麼個
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	麼個
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	麼個
Huizhou	Jixi	麼仂
Jin	Taiyuan	甚
Jin	Xinzhou	甚
Min Bei	Jian'ou	孰事、孰麼
Min Dong	Fuzhou	什乇
Min Dong	Matsu	什乇
Min Nan	Xiamen	什物、啥物、啥貨
	Quanzhou	什物、啥物
	Zhangzhou	哪貨仔、哪貨、哪仔、哪物仔、哪物、什物、啥物、啥貨
	Taipei	啥貨、啥物、啥
	Kaohsiung	啥、啥貨、啥物
	Tainan	啥物、啥貨
	Taichung	啥
	Hsinchu	啥
	Lukang	啥物、啥貨
	Sanxia	啥
	Yilan	啥貨
	Kinmen	啥貨、物代
	Magong	啥貨、物代
	Penang	啥物
	Singapore	什物
	Philippines (Manila)	啥物
	Chaozhou	乜個、乜
	Haikou	乜、個乜
	Leizhou	乜
Pinghua	Nanning	門、哪門
Wu	Shanghai	啥、啥個
	Suzhou	啥
	Hangzhou	啥
	Wenzhou	何呢
	Chongming	何
	Danyang	點高
	Jinhua	待、淡
	Ningbo	啥
Xiang	Changsha	麼子
	Shuangfeng	麼子
	Loudi	麼子

Japanese

Kanji

咩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): び (bi); み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

咩 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咩 (mã, me)

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References

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