媚

媚	U+5A9A, 媚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5A9A

← 媙
[U+5A99]

CJK Unified Ideographs

媛 →
[U+5A9B]

Translingual

Han character

媚 (radical 38 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 女日竹山 (VAHU), four-corner 4746₇, composition ⿰女眉)

References

KangXi: page 267, character 7

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6513

Dae Jaweon: page 534, character 11

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1069, character 15

Unihan data for U+5A9A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		媚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眉) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
眉	*mril
楣	*mril
嵋	*bril
湄	*mril
鶥	*mril
瑂	*mril
郿	mril, mrils
葿	*mril
媚	*mrils
篃	*mrils
蝞	*mrills
煝	*mrils

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mèi (mei⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei⁶, mei⁴
Min Nan (POJ): bī / mī

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mei⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mey
  - IPA ^(key): /meɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei⁶, mei⁴
  - Yale: meih, mèih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei⁶, mei⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi⁶, méi⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /mei̯²²/, /mei̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bī
  - Tâi-lô: bī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bi
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bi³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bi²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁴¹/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mī
  - Tâi-lô: mī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mi
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /mĩ²²/

Middle Chinese: /mˠiɪ^H/▼

Rime
Character	媚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	明祕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/miɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mji^H/
Li Rong	/mji^H/
Wang Li	/mi^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mì

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mrəjʔ-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*mrils/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	媚
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mèi
Middle Chinese	‹ mij^H ›
Old Chinese	/*mrəjʔ-s/
English	love; flatter
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	媚
Reading #	1/1
No.	8946
Phonetic component	眉
Rime group	脂
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	郿
Old Chinese	/*mrils/

Definitions

媚

charming, attractive
to flatter

Compounds

仄媚
側媚／侧媚
千嬌百媚／千娇百媚
取媚
奴顏媚骨／奴颜媚骨
妍媚
妖媚 (yāomèi)
姣媚
姿姿媚媚
姿媚
媚世
媚力
媚外 (mèiwài)
媚奧／媚奥
媚如秋月
媚姿姿
媚嫵／媚妩
媚子
媚惑
媚態／媚态 (mèitài)
媚景
媚灶

媚眼 (mèiyǎn)
媚笑雜樣／媚笑杂样
媚行
媚諂／媚谄
媚諛／媚谀
媚道
媚骨 (mèigǔ)
嫵媚／妩媚 (wǔmèi)
嬌媚／娇媚 (jiāomèi)
崇洋媚外 (chóngyángmèiwài)
承歡獻媚／承欢献媚
抹媚
斂怨求媚／敛怨求媚
明媚 (míngmèi)
明媚閑雅／明媚闲雅
映媚
春光明媚
曲媚取容
木媚
柔媚
柳媚花明
武媚

求容取媚
煙視媚行／烟视媚行
爭妍獻媚／争妍献媚
狐媚
狐媚子
狐媚猿攀
狐媚魔道
狐媚魘道／狐媚魇道
獻媚／献媚 (xiànmèi)
甜言媚語／甜言媚语
百媚千嬌／百媚千娇
秀媚
綺媚／绮媚
良辰媚景
花明柳媚
薄媚
蠱媚／蛊媚 (gǔmèi)
諂媚／谄媚 (chǎnmèi)
諛媚／谀媚
阿媚
風光明媚／风光明媚

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

媚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Goon: み (mi)
Kan’on: び (bi)
Kun: こぶ (kobu, 媚ぶ); こび (kobi); こびる (kobiru, 媚びる); こばむ (kobamu, 媚ばむ)

Compounds

媚薬 (びやく) (biyaku): aphrodisiac

Korean

Hanja

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

Vietnamese

Han character

媚 (mị)

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