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 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 15 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 14 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿田中戈 (TWLI), four-corner 44253, composition ⿱𦭝戍 or ⿳艹罒戍)

Antonyms

Derived characters

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1054, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31781
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3279, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8511

Chinese
trad. 蔑
simp. # 蔑

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 蔑
Shang Western Zhou
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions
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

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 𦰋 (“person”) + 戈 (“dagger-axe”) – a weapon striking a person's lower leg.

𦰋 (“person”) was composed of an eye with eyebrows (now written 眉) on top of 人. The eye and eyebrows are written ⿱艹罒 in the modern form of 蔑, and 人 has combined with 戈 to form 戍.

Pronunciation

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
Baxter met
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 mit6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蔑
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miè
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ met ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁet/
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

  1. to belittle; to disdain; to despise
  2. to extinguish; to obliterate
  3. to discard
  4. slight; small; lowly
  5. nothing; none
  6. (of the eye) red and swollen, making one unable to see clearly
Synonyms

Compounds

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 蔑 – see 衊 (“dirty blood; to smear; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified form of 衊).
Notes:

References

Japanese

Kanji
蔑

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. nothing
  2. to ignore
  3. to belittle, to despise

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蔑 (MC met).

Recorded as Middle Korean 며ᇙ〮 (Yale: myelq) in Dongguk Jeongun (東國正韻 / 동국정운), 1448.

Recorded as Middle Korean 멸〮 (myél) (Yale: myel) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource 蔑 (eumhun 업신여길 멸 (eopsinyeogil myeol))

  1. Hanja form? of 멸 (“to belittle; to despise”).

Compounds
Compounds
  • 능멸 (凌蔑, neungmyeol)
  • 모멸 (侮蔑, momyeol)
  • 경멸 (輕蔑, gyeongmyeol)
  • 멸시 (蔑視, myeolsi)
  • 능멸 (陵蔑, neungmyeol)
  • 만멸 (慢蔑, manmyeol)
  • 멸대 (蔑待, myeoldae)
  • 멸략 (蔑略, myeollyak)
  • 자멸 (自蔑, jamyeol)
  • 멸의 (蔑義, myeorui)
  • 멸법 (蔑法, myeolbeop)
  • 멸칭 (蔑稱, myeolching)

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

蔑: Hán Nôm readings: miệt

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Compounds
Compounds
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