瞇

See also: 眯

瞇	U+7787, 瞇 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7787

← 瞆
[U+7786]

CJK Unified Ideographs

瞈 →
[U+7788]

Translingual

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 目 + phonetic 迷 (OC *miː).

Han character

瞇 (radical 109 目+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 月山卜火木 (BUYFD), four-corner 6903₉, composition ⿰目迷)

References

KangXi: page 813, character 17

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23556

Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 27

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2503, character 11

Unihan data for U+7787

Chinese

trad.		瞇
simp.		眯^*

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mī (mi¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mei¹, mi¹, mai⁴
Min Nan (POJ): bî / mi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mī
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧ
  - Wade–Giles: mih¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhi
  - IPA ^(key): /mi⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mei¹, mi¹, mai⁴
  - Yale: mēi, mī, màih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mei¹, mi¹, mai⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: méi¹, mi¹, mei⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /mei̯⁵⁵/, /miː⁵⁵/, /mɐi̯²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bî
  - Tâi-lô: bî
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bii
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi¹³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /bi²⁴/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mi
  - Tâi-lô: mi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: my
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mĩ⁴⁴/

Definitions

瞇

to squint, to narrow one's eyes
(dialectal) to take a nap

Compounds

瞇埋眼／眯埋眼
瞇埋隻眼／眯埋只眼

瞇瞇眼／眯眯眼 (mīmīyǎn)

笑瞇瞇／笑眯眯 (xiàomīmī)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 瞇 – see 眯 (“to get into one's eye, to blind”). (This character, 瞇, is a variant form of 眯.)

References

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

Vietnamese

Han character

瞇 (mị)

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