尾

尾 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 7721₄, composition ⿸尸毛)

• 娓, 捤, 梶, 浘, 艉, 䅏, 䊊, 䜸, 䞔, 䬿
• 荱, 䇻, 㞙, 屗, 屘, 趘

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 300, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7650
• Dae Jaweon: page 596, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 966, character 16
• Unihan data for U+5C3E

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of saddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).

尾

1. tail (Classifier: 條／条 c; 支 mn)
2. end
3. last; final
4. Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
   • 2022, “过想看见你”, 李立群 (lyrics), 郑伊洋 (music)‎^[2]performed by 张滢:

     我过想看见你，肖一尾自由自在个小鱼 [Teochew, simp.]
     我過想看見你，肖一尾自由自在個小魚 [Teochew, trad.]

     ua² guê³ sion⁶ toin² gin³ le², siao⁶ zêg⁸ bhuê² ze⁶ iu⁵ ze⁶ zai⁶ gai⁵ sio² he⁵ [Peng'im]

     I want to see you be like a carefree little fish

5. (～宿) (Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

• (tail):

• (classifier):

• “尾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “尾”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: み (mi)
• Kan-on: び (bi, Jōyō)
• Kun: お (o, 尾, Jōyō)^{←を (wo, 尾, historical)}

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese 尾 (wo), from Proto-Japonic *bo.^[1]

First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE in the senses “tail” and “foot of a mountain”.^[2]

• (Tokyo) お [óꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3][4]
• IPA^(key): [o̞]

尾(お) • (o) ^{←を (wo)?}

1. tail
2. foot of a mountain
3. end of something

• (tail): 尻(しっ)尾(ぽ) (shippo)
• (foot of a mountain): 麓(ふもと) (fumoto), 山麓(さんろく) (sanroku)

From Middle Chinese 尾 (MC mj+jX).

• (Tokyo) び [bíꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[3]
• IPA^(key): [bʲi]

尾(び) • (bi) 

1. tail

• 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku, “Tail”)

尾(び) • (-bi) 

1. fish, shrimp

尾(び) • (Bi) 

1. (Chinese astronomy) Tail

   Hypernyms: 青竜, 二十八宿

• 尾(び)宿(しゅく) (Bishuku), 足(あし)垂(た)れ星(ぼし) (Ashitareboshi)

• “尾”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[4] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

尾 (eumhun 꼬리 미 (kkori mi))

1. hanja form^? of 미 (“tail, extremity”)
2. hanja form^? of 미 (“end, stern”)

尾: Hán Việt readings: vĩ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}
尾: Nôm readings: vẻ^[1][2][7], vạy^[1][2], vấy^[1][2], vẽ^[1][2], vả^[1][3], vãi^[1][4], vỉ^[1][7], vải^[5][7], vẩy^[1], vẫy^[2], vã^[3], vải^[3], vía^[7], vảy^[7]

1. chữ Hán form of vĩ (“tail; (music) bow”)
2. chữ Nôm form of vả (“(only in compounds) besides, again”)
3. chữ Nôm form of vãi (“Buddhist nun”)
4. chữ Nôm form of vấy (“to stain”)
5. chữ Nôm form of vẻ
   1. used in vắng vẻ (“quiet; deserted; unfrequented”)
   2. used in vui vẻ (“happy; joyful”)
6. chữ Nôm form of vẽ (“to draw; to paint”)
7. chữ Nôm form of vỉ (“trellis matting (used to lag bottom of a double boiler (chõ), usually made of bamboo)”)