楣

楣 U+6963, 楣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6963
← 楢
[U+6962] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 楤 →
[U+6964]

Translingual

Han character

楣 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木日竹山 (DAHU), four-corner 47967, composition ⿰木眉)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 540, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15155
  • Dae Jaweon: page 928, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1257, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+6963

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 楣
2nd round simp. 𠃜

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (眉) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
眉 *mril
楣 *mril
嵋 *bril
湄 *mril
鶥 *mril
瑂 *mril
郿 *mril, *mrils
葿 *mril
媚 *mrils
篃 *mrils
蝞 *mrills
煝 *mrils

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 楣
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 脂 (17)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武悲切
Baxter mij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚi/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mji/
Li
Rong		 /mji/
Wang
Li		 /mi/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 mei4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 楣
Reading # 1/1
No. 8939
Phonetic
component		 眉
Rime
group		 脂
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 眉
Old
Chinese		 /*mril/

Definitions

楣

  1. lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate
    中楣 [Cantonese]  ―  zung3 mei4 [Jyutping]  ―  to shoot a ball onto the horizontal beam of the goal (in football)

Japanese

Kanji
楣

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate

Readings
  • Go-on: み (mi)
  • Kan-on: び (bi)
  • Kun: かもい (kamoi); ひさし (hisashi); まぐさ (magusa)

Compounds
  • 楣間(びかん) (bikan)
  • 楣(び)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (bishiki kōzō)
  • 門楣(もんび) (monbi)

Etymology
Kanji in this term
楣
まぐさ
Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
目草

From Old Japanese. First cited to a text from 762.[1]

Compound of 目 (ma, combining form of me, “eye; opening”) +‎ 種 (kusa, “material, piece”, also spelled 草 in various compounds).[1][2][3] The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

楣(まぐさ) • (magusa) 

  1. [from 762] (architecture, construction, carpentry) a lintel
    Hypernyms: 横材 (yokozai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 横架材 (ōkazai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 水平材 (suiheizai, “horizontal support, crosspiece”), 横木 (yokogi, “wooden crosspiece”)
    Hyponyms: 鴨居 (kamoi, “a lintel with grooves for a sliding window or door”), 無目 (mume, “a lintel lacking grooves for a sliding window or door”), 蹴放 (kehanashi, “lower door lintel”, literally “kick-off”), 窓台 (madodai, “lower window lintel”)

Derived terms
  • 楣(まぐさ)石(いし) (magusa ishi, “a lintel stone”)
  • 楣(まぐさ)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (magusa-shiki kōzō, “trabeated construction”)

References
  1. “楣”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. “楣目草”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

楣 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

楣: Hán Nôm readings: me

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