宓 · mì
quiet, silent; in good health
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
quiet, silent; in good health
- Mandarin
- mì
- Cantonese
- mat6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 宓 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
ヒツ フク ビツ ミチ ブク しずか やすらかKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 복
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5B93
- Radical
- 宀 · 40
- Strokes
- 8 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
8 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 宓
Character connections
Component roles · attributed
- 必 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 必聲
Line 8816 · ⿱宀必 · 必聲 · source reference 2690240
# 国訓
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
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History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- mjit · 彌畢 反切 · #3303
- Middle Chinese
- mit · 美畢 反切 · #3311
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 17047 · mjit = 臻開三入眞明 · mit = 臻開三入眞明
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- mì
- kCantonese
- mat6
- kDefinition
- quiet, silent; in good health
- kTotalStrokes
- 8
- kRSUnicode
- 40.5
- kTGH
- 2013:4037
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- mì,fú 20923.030
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- mì 0782.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- fú 100.130 · mì 250.150
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- mì粵mat6 fú粵fuk6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 彌畢 美畢
- Kangxi positions
- 0283.060
- Guangyun positions
- 470.53 472.14
- GSR references
- 0405o
- Cangjie
- JPH
- Four-corner
- 3033.2