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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: mǐ
Preclassic Old Chinese: mhījʔ (~ ē)
Classic Old Chinese: mhī́j
Western Han Chinese: mhjǝ̄́j
Eastern Han Chinese: mhiǝ̄́j
Early Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj
Late Postclassic Chinese: mhiḗj
Middle Chinese: míej
English meaning : peeled grain, rice
Russian meaning[s]: 1) рис в зернах; очищенное зерно; обрушенный рис; крупа; 2) зерновые; 3) сокр. метр; 4) Ми (фамилия)
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is mễ; Viet. mạ 'rice seedlings' is somewhat different semantically and not quite clear phonetically (vowel, tone) - thus a purely chance resemblance is not excluded. For *mh- cf. Jianou mi8.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 119
Four-angle index: 5306
Karlgren code: 0598 a-c
Vietnamese reading: mạ
Jianchuan Bai: me1
Dali Bai: mer1-, me1
Bijiang Bai: mi1
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