澪

澪 U+6FAA, 澪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6FAA
← 澩
[U+6FA9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 澫 →
[U+6FAB]

Translingual

Han character

澪 (radical 85, 水+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 水一月戈 (EMBI) or X水一月戈 (XEMBI), four-corner 31137, composition ⿰氵零)

References

  • KangXi: page 653, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18398
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1063, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1754, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6FAA

Chinese

trad. 澪
simp. # 澪

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 澪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 郎丁切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /leŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /leŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /lɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /leŋ/
Wang
Li		 /lieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /lieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 líng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 澪
Reading # 1/1
No. 8328
Phonetic
component		 令
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 靈
Old
Chinese		 /*reːŋ/

Definitions

澪

  1. The name of a body of water.
  2. Alternative form of 泠 (líng).

Compounds

  • 澪渠

References

Japanese

Kanji

澪

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. waterway, channel

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
澪
みお
Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

⟨mi1 wo⟩ → /miwo/ → /mio/

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE, spelled either phonetically in man'yōgana or as 水尾.[1]

Derived as a compound of 水 (mi, “water”, ancient combining form) +‎ 緒 (wo, modern reading o, “cord; something long and continuing”, likely cognate with 尾 (o, “tail”) from the sense of “something long and continuing from the end of the main body”).[2]

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

澪 (hiragana みお, rōmaji mio, historical hiragana みを)

  1. a waterway
  2. (more specifically) a navigable channel
  3. a wake (path left behind by a passing ship on the water's surface)
    Synonym: 航跡 (kōseki)
Derived terms

Proper noun

澪 (hiragana みお, rōmaji Mio, historical hiragana みを)

  1. a female given name.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
澪
れい
Jinmeiyō
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 澪 (MC leŋ).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

澪 (hiragana れい, rōmaji Rei)

  1. a female given name.

References

  1. ↑ c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 7, poem 1108), text here
  2. ↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  3. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1 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
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