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

Derived characters
  • 𱗦, 霢, 𪃻

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 982, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1434, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2068, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+8108

Chinese
trad. 脈/脉
simp. 脉
alternative 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／形声, OC *mreːɡ) : semantic ⺼ (“flesh”) + phonetic 𠂢 ().

Pronunciation

Note: mò - also used in Mainland in 脈脈.
Note:
  • măh - vernacular;
  • mĕk - literary.
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
Baxter meak
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 mak6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 脈
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˁ<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
Shinjitai 脈
Kyūjitai
[1]
脈󠄂
脈+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
脈󠄄
脈+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji
脈

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
脈
みゃく
Grade: 5
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 脈 (MC meak).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) みゃく​ [myàkúꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [mʲa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

脈(みゃく) • (myaku) 

  1. pulse
  2. chain of mountains
    山(さん)脈(みゃく)
    sanmyaku
    mountain range
  3. blood vessels
  4. hope
    彼(かれ)はまだ脈(みゃく)がある
    kare wa mada myaku ga aru
    he still has some hope

References
  1. Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1753 (paper), page 928 (digital)
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 脈 (MC meak). Recorded as Middle Korean 脉/ᄆᆡᆨ〮 (móyk) (Yale: moyk) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 脈 (eumhun 줄기 맥 (julgi maek))

  1. Hanja form? of 맥 (“vein”).
  2. Hanja form? of 맥 (“pulse”).

Compounds
Compounds

References
  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

脈: Hán Nôm readings: mạch

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