mì
honey
Phonosemantic compound. 虫 represents the meaning and 宓 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mit | mjit | mì | honey |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 17.1232% of movies
1392nd most common character in movies
2014th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+871C |
Shuowen | “，蠭甘飴也。一曰螟子。从，鼏聲。蜜，或从宓。” |
Sources
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