邁

See also: 迈 and 遇

邁	U+9081, 邁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9081

← 邀
[U+9080]

CJK Unified Ideographs

邂 →
[U+9082]

Translingual

Han character

邁 (Kangxi radical 162, 辵+13, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿田月 (YTWB), four-corner 3430₂, composition ⿺辶萬)

Derived characters

𫬱, 𧮇

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1266, character 17
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39169
Dae Jaweon: page 1764, character 7
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3880, character 12
Unihan data for U+9081

Chinese

trad.		邁
simp.		迈

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 邁
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (萬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
糲	m·raːds, m·rads, *m·raːd
犡	m·raːds, m·rads
噧	hmreːds, r̥ʰaːd
邁	*mraːds
勱	*mraːds
蠆	*m̥ʰraːds
厲	*m·rads
勵	*m·rads
礪	*m·rads
蠣	*m·rads
蠇	*m·rads
癘	*m·rads
濿	*m·rads
櫔	*m·rads
巁	*m·rads
贎	m·rads, mlans
萬	*mlans

Etymology

“mile; kilometer per hour”: From English mile.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mài (mai⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mai
Eastern Min (BUC): mâi
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): māi / mai

(Teochew, Peng'im): mai⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mài
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mài
  - Wade–Giles: mai⁴
  - Yale: mài
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may
  - Palladius: май (maj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: maai⁶
  - Yale: maaih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mai⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mai
  - Hakka Romanization System: mai
  - Hagfa Pinyim: mai⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /mai̯⁵⁵/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mâi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑi²⁴²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: māi
  - Tâi-lô: māi
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mai
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mãi³³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mãi⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãi²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mai
  - Tâi-lô: mai
  - Phofsit Daibuun: may
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mãi⁴⁴/

Note: mai - “mile”.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mai⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: măi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mai³⁵/

Middle Chinese: maejH

Rime
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	夬 (29)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫話切
Baxter	maejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠai^H/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚai^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mai^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjs^H/
Li Rong	/mai^H/
Wang Li	/mæi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mai^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mài
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maai⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrat-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*mraːds/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邁
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mài
Middle Chinese	‹ mæj^H ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrat-s/
English	proceed, march
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	邁
Reading #	1/1
No.	12618
Phonetic component	萬
Rime group	祭
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	邁
Old Chinese	/*mraːds/

Definitions

邁

to go on a long journey
to stride; to take a step
to pass by; to surpass
old; elderly
mile
(colloquial, in varieties that don't use 碼) kilometer per hour
Alternative form of 勱／劢 (mài)
a surname

Compounds

References

“邁”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

邁

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: まい (mai)
Kan-on: ばい (bai)
Kun: ゆく (yuku, 邁く)、すぎる (sugiru, 邁ぎる)、つとめる (tsutomeru, 邁める)
Nanori: すぐる (suguru)、すすむ (susumu)、つとむ (tsutomu)

Compounds

邁(まい)進(しん) (maishin, “to advance forward”)
高(こう)邁(まい) (kōmai)

Korean

Hanja

邁 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Vietnamese

Han character

邁: Hán Nôm readings: mại, mời, mười

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