尾

尾 U+5C3E, 尾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C3E
← 尽
[U+5C3D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 尿 →
[U+5C3F]

Translingual

Han character

尾 (radical 44 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition ⿸尸毛)

References

  • KangXi: page 300, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
  • Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 966, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5C3E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 尾

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (尾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
娓 *mrɯls, *mɯlʔ
尾 *mɯlʔ
浘 *mɯlʔ

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bé/bér/bóe - vernacular;
  • bí - literary.
Rime
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 微 (21)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 無匪切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mʉiX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mʷɨiX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuəiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mujX/
Li
Rong		 /miuəiX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭwəiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mwe̯iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wěi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 尾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wěi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjɨjX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]əjʔ/
English tail

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 尾
Reading # 1/1
No. 12882
Phonetic
component		 尾
Rime
group		 微
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 尾
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯlʔ/

Definitions

尾

  1. tail
  2. end
  3. last; final
  4. Classifier for fish. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

尾

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
尾
お
Grade: S
kun’yomi

/wo/ → /o/.

Pronunciation

Noun

尾 (hiragana お, rōmaji o, historical hiragana を)

  1. a tail
  2. the foot of a mountain
  3. the end of something
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
尾
び
Grade: S
on’yomi

Middle Chinese 尾

Pronunciation

Affix

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji bi)

  1. tail
Derived terms

Counter

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji -bi)

  1. fish, shrimp

Proper noun

尾 (hiragana び, rōmaji Bi)

  1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail
Synonyms

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

尾 (vĩ, vãi, vả, vã, vải, nhân)

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