# 楣

| 楣 | U+6963, &#26979; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6963 |
| ← 楢 [U+6962] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 楤 → [U+6964] |

## Translingual
### Han character

楣 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木日竹山 (DAHU), four-corner 4796$_7$, composition ⿰木眉)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 540, character 14
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15155
* Dae Jaweon: page 928, character 1
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1257, character 8
* Unihan data for U+6963

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 眉 | *mril |
| 楣 | *mril |
| 嵋 | *bril |
| 湄 | *mril |
| 鶥 | *mril |
| 瑂 | *mril |
| 郿 | *mril, *mrils |
| 葿 | *mril |
| 媚 | *mrils |
| 篃 | *mrils |
| 蝞 | *mrills |
| 煝 | *mrils |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): méi (mei$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mei$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: méi
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: méi
*** Wade–Giles: mei$^2$
*** Yale: méi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mei
*** Palladius: мэй (mɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /meɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mei$^4$
*** Yale: mèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: méi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /mei̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: mij
Rime :
| Character | 楣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (17) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 武悲切 |
| Baxter | mij |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠiɪ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚi/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /miɪ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mji/ |
| Li Rong | /mji/ |
| Wang Li | /mi/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mei$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mril/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 楣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8939 |
| Phonetic component | 眉 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 眉 |
| Old Chinese | /*mril/ |

### Definitions

楣
* lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate
    中楣 [Cantonese] ― zung$^3$ mei$^4$ [Jyutping] ― to shoot a ball onto the horizontal beam of the goal (in football)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* lintel; crossbeam above or under a gate

#### Readings

* Go-on: み (mi)
* Kan-on: び (bi)
* Kun: かもい (kamoi)、ひさし (hisashi)、まぐさ (magusa)

#### Compounds

* 楣間(びかん) (bikan)
* 楣(び)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (bishiki kōzō)
* 門楣(もんび) (monbi)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 楣
* まぐさ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
* Alternative spelling
* 目草
From Old Japanese. First cited to a text from 762.
Compound of 目 (ma, combining form of me, “eye; opening”) +‎ 種 (kusa, “material, piece”, also spelled 草 in various compounds). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) まぐさ [màgúsá] (Heiban – [0])
* (Tokyo) まぐさ [màgúsáꜜ] (Odaka –)
* IPA: [ma̠ɡɯ̟sa̠]

### Noun

楣(まぐさ) • (magusa)
* [from 762] (architecture, construction, carpentry) a lintel
    Hypernyms: 横材 (yokozai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 横架材 (ōkazai, “crossbeam, crosspiece”), 水平材 (suiheizai, “horizontal support, crosspiece”), 横木 (yokogi, “wooden crosspiece”)
    Hyponyms: 鴨居 (kamoi, “a lintel with grooves for a sliding window or door”), 無目 (mume, “a lintel lacking grooves for a sliding window or door”), 蹴放 (kehanashi, “lower door lintel”, literally “kick-off”), 窓台 (madodai, “lower window lintel”)

#### Derived terms

* 楣(まぐさ)石(いし) (magusa ishi, “a lintel stone”)
* 楣(まぐさ)式(しき)構造(こうぞう) (magusa-shiki kōzō, “trabeated construction”)

### References

* 1 2 “楣”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
* ↑ “楣目草”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
* 1 2 3 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

## Korean
### Hanja

楣 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

楣: Hán Nôm readings: me
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