mèi
obscure
Phonosemantic compound. 日 represents the meaning and 未 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤ[u][t]-s | mwojH | mèi | dusk; dark |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.1578% of movies
2536th most common character in movies
2376th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+6627 |
Shuowen | “昧爽，旦明也。从日，未聲。一曰闇也。” |
Sources
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