旻

旻	U+65FB, 旻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-65FB

← 旺
[U+65FA]

CJK Unified Ideographs

旼 →
[U+65FC]

Translingual

Han character

旻 (Kangxi radical 72, 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日卜大 (AYK), four-corner 6040₀, composition ⿱日文)

heaven

Derived characters

㥗, 渂, 琝, 閺

Additional Derived Characters

𡹋, 𫹗, 𭪟, 𪸻, 𰼸

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 490, character 25
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13775
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1495, character 6
Unihan data for U+65FB

Chinese

simp. and trad.		旻

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 旻
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
旻	*mrɯn
旼	*mrɯn
汶	mrɯn, mɯn, *mɯns
忞	*mrɯn
盿	*mrɯn
枚	*mɯːl
玫	*mɯːl
玟	*mɯːl
文	*mɯn
紋	*mɯn
蚊	*mɯn
雯	*mɯn
彣	*mɯn
馼	*mɯn
鳼	*mɯn
鼤	mɯn, mɯns
抆	mɯnʔ, mɯns
紊	*mɯns

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mín (min²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mín
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mín
  - Wade–Giles: min²
  - Yale: mín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
  - Palladius: минь (minʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /min³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: man⁴
  - Yale: màhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹/

Middle Chinese: min

Rime
Character	旻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武巾切
Baxter	min
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/mien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin/
Li Rong	/mjĕn/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mrə[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*mrɯn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	旻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mín
Middle Chinese	‹ min ›
Old Chinese	/*mrə[n]/
English	austere, severe
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	旻
Reading #	1/1
No.	13007
Phonetic component	文
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrɯn/

Definitions

旻

(literary) the sky; Heaven

Compounds

召旻
小旻
旻天 (míntiān)
旻寧 / 旻宁
旻序 (mínxù)
蒼旻 / 苍旻 (cāngmín)

Japanese

Kanji

旻

(Hyōgai kanji)

the autumn sky

Readings

Go-on: みん (min)
Kan-on: びん (bin)
Kun: あきら (akira)、あきぞら (akizora)
Nanori: あきら (akira)、ひ (hi)

References

“^▲旻”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

旻 • (haneul min) (hangeul 하늘 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)

the sky; autumn sky

Vietnamese

Han character

旻: Hán Nôm readings: mân

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References

Nom Foundation