蔑

See also: 衊

蔑	U+8511, 蔑 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8511

← 蔐
[U+8510]

CJK Unified Ideographs

蔒 →
[U+8512]

Translingual

Han character

蔑 (radical 140 艸+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 4425₃, composition ⿳艹罒戍)

Antonyms

尊

Derived characters

幭瀎懱櫗礣襪蠛衊鑖韈韤鱴

References

KangXi: page 1054, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781

Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3279, character 8

Unihan data for U+8511

Chinese

simp. and trad.		蔑

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (蔑) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
礣	*mreːd
蔑	meːd, meːd
篾	*meːd
蠛	*meːd
懱	*meːd
幭	*meːd
鱴	*meːd
衊	*meːd
瀎	meːd, maːd
襪	*mad
韤	*mad
韈	*mad

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miè (mie⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mit⁶
Min Nan (POJ): bia̍t

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: miè
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mieh⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mieh
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mit⁶
  - Yale: miht
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mit⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mid⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /miːt̚²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bia̍t
  - Tâi-lô: bia̍t
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biat
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛt̚²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛt̚¹²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɛt̚⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛt̚⁴/

Middle Chinese: /met̚/▼

Rime
Character	蔑
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	屑 (87)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫結切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/met̚/
Pan Wuyun	/met̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛt̚/
Li Rong	/met̚/
Wang Li	/miet̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/miet̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miè

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤet/

(Zhengzhang): /*meːd/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蔑
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miè
Middle Chinese	‹ met ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤet/
English	destroy; not have
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	蔑	蔑
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9116	9118
Phonetic component	蔑	蔑
Rime group	月	月
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	蔑	蔑
Old Chinese	/*meːd/	/*meːd/
Notes	金文從伐𥄕聲或眉聲，兼殺滅伐功義

Definitions

蔑

to belittle; to disdain; to despise
to extinguish; to obliterate
to discard
slight; small; lowly
nothing; none
(of the eye) red and swollen, making one unable to see clearly

Synonyms

藐 (miǎo)
鄙 (bǐ)

Compounds

侮蔑 (wǔmiè)
吉蔑 (Jímiè)
方斯蔑如
毀廉蔑恥／毁廉蔑耻

污蔑 (wūmiè)
蔑如
蔑棄／蔑弃
蔑蒙

蔑視／蔑视 (mièshì)
誣蔑／诬蔑 (wūmiè)
輕蔑／轻蔑 (qīngmiè)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蔑 – see 衊 (“dirty blood; to smear; etc.”). (This character, 蔑, is the simplified form of 衊.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Japanese

Kanji

蔑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Goon: めち (mechi)
Kan’on: べつ (betsu, Jōyō)
Kun: さげすむ (sagesumu, 蔑む, Jōyō); ないがしろ (naigashiro, 蔑ろ); なみする (namisuru, 蔑する); ない (nai)

Compounds

軽蔑 (けいべつ) (keibetsu)
蔑 (べっ)称 (しょう) (besshō)

Korean

Hanja

蔑 • (myeol) (hangeul 멸, revised myeol, McCune–Reischauer myŏl, Yale myel)

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