# 弭

| 弭 | U+5F2D, &#24365; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5F2D |
| ← 弬 [U+5F2C] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 弮 → [U+5F2E] |

## Translingual
### Han character

弭 (Kangxi radical 57, 弓+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓尸十 (NSJ), four-corner 1124$_0$, composition ⿰弓耳)
* stop, desist, end, quell

#### Derived characters

* 㥝, 渳, 𢐩, 葞, 麛, 𪓯

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 358, character 7
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9768
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 995, character 3
* Unihan data for U+5F2D

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 佴 | *nɯːs, *njɯs |
| 麛 | *miː |
| 弭 | *mniʔ |
| 渳 | *mniʔ |
| 葞 | *mniʔ |
| 髶 | *njis, *njoŋ |
| 聻 | *nɯʔ |
| 恥 | *n̥ʰɯʔ |
| 咡 | *njɯ, *njɯs |
| 誀 | *njɯ, *njɯs |
| 耳 | *njɯʔ |
| 洱 | *njɯʔ, *njɯs |
| 駬 | *njɯʔ |
| 餌 | *njɯs |
| 珥 | *njɯs |
| 衈 | *njɯs |
| 毦 | *njɯs |
| 刵 | *njɯs |
| 眲 | *njɯs, *rnɯːɡ |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mǐ (mi$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mai$^5$ / mei$^5$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mǐ
*** Wade–Giles: mi$^3$
*** Yale: mǐ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
*** Palladius: ми (mi)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mai$^5$ / mei$^5$
*** Yale: máih / méih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mai$^5$ / mei$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mei$^5$ / méi$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐi̯¹³/, /mei̯¹³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí
*** Tâi-lô: bí
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bie
*** IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: mjieX
Rime :
| Character | 弭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 支 (11) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 綿婢切 |
| Baxter | mjieX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /miᴇ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miɛ$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mjɛ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /miə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /mie$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mǐe$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mie̯$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mǐ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mei$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m-ŋ]e(j)ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*mniʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 弭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | mǐ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mjie$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[m-ŋ]e(j)ʔ/ |
| English | bow decorated with bone or ivory ends |
| 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 | 弭 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2775 |
| Phonetic component | 耳 |
| Rime group | 脂 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 渳 |
| Old Chinese | /*mniʔ/ |

### Definitions

弭
* (literary) to stop; to put an end to; to remove
* (archaic) bow decorated with bone or ivory at the ends
* (archaic) curved ends of a bow
* (archaic) to reassure; to assuage; to calm
* (archaic) to forget
* Used in place names.
* a surname

#### Compounds

* 弭亂／弭乱
* 弭兵 (mǐbīng)
* 弭兵之會／弭兵之会
* 弭平
* 弭從／弭从
* 弭患
* 弭患無形／弭患无形
* 弭棹
* 弭盜安民／弭盗安民
* 弭節／弭节
* 弭節徘徊／弭节徘徊
* 弭耳
* 弭謗／弭谤
* 消弭 (xiāomǐ)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* stop, quit
* nock, notch

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): び (bi)、み (mi)
* Kun: やはず (yahazu, 弭)、はず (hazu, 弭)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 弭
* はず Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 弭 – see the following entry. :
| 【はず】 | [noun] nock; the grooves that hold a bowstring on a bow, the notch that holds an arrow to the bowstring [noun] (sumo) a nock-shaped grip used in はず押(お)し (hazu oshi) [noun] as things should be; what is expected; that which should be so; must be; bound to be; expected to be [noun] (Okinawa) what may happen; as things could be Alternative spelling 筈 |
(This term, 弭, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

弭 (eum 미 (mi))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

弭: Hán Nôm readings: nhẹ, nhĩ, nhị
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