脈

See also: 脉
脈 U+8108, 脈
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8108
← 脇
[U+8107] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 脉 →
[U+8109]

Translingual

Han character

脈 (radical 130 肉+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹女 (BHHV), four-corner 72232, composition ⿰月𠂢)

References

  • KangXi: page 982, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2068, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8108

Chinese

trad. 脈
simp. 脉
alt. forms 衇

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (派) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
庍 *qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
派 *m̥ʰreːɡs
脈 *mreːɡ
脉 *mreːɡ
衇 *mreːɡ
眽 *mreːɡ
覛 *mreːɡ, *meːɡ
霢 *mreːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mreːɡ) : semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 𠂢.

Pronunciation

Note: mò - also used in Mainland in 脈脈.
Note:
  • măh - vernacular;
  • mĕk - literary.
Note:
  • bia̍k/be̍k - literary;
  • me̍h/be̍h/me̍eh - vernacular.
Rime
Character 脈
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫獲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /mɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /mæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mò
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤ<r>[i]k/
English vein

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 脈
Reading # 1/1
No. 9642
Phonetic
component		 派
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 麥
Old
Chinese		 /*mreːɡ/
Notes 同衇，原依說文從血在右，注此或體

Definitions

脈

  1. (traditional Chinese medicine) blood vessels; veins and arteries
  2. (traditional Chinese medicine) pulse
  3. vein of a leaf
  4. something linking up to form a blood vessel-like network, such as mountain ranges

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

脈

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

脈 (hiragana みゃく, rōmaji myaku)

  1. pulse

Korean

Hanja

脈 • (maek) (hangeul 맥, revised maek, McCune–Reischauer maek, Yale mayk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

脈 (mạch)

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