# 霉

| 霉 | U+9709, &#38665; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9709 |
| ← 霈 [U+9708] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 霊 → [U+970A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

霉 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+7, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一月人田卜 (MBOWY), four-corner 1050$_7$, composition ⿱⻗每)

#### Related characters

* 黴 (Traditional form of 霉)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1375, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42302
* Dae Jaweon: page 1884, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4065, character 1
* Unihan data for U+9709

## Chinese
### Etymology 1
#### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 脢 | *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 挴 | *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ |
| 海 | *hmlɯːʔ |
| 毐 | *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ |
| 呣 | *mɯ |
| 拇 | *mɯʔ |
| 母 | *mɯʔ |
| 胟 | *mɯʔ |
| 姆 | *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ |
| 畮 | *mɯʔ |
| 踇 | *mɯʔ |
| 苺 | *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs |
| 莓 | *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 敏 | *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ |
| 鰵 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 慜 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 毋 | *ma |
| 梅 | *mɯː |
| 酶 | *mɯː |
| 鋂 | *mɯː |
| 每 | *mɯːʔ |
| 毎 | *mɯːs |
| 痗 | *mɯːs, *hmɯːs |
| 晦 | *hmɯːs |
| 誨 | *hmɯːs |
| 悔 | *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs |
| 霉 | *mrɯl |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mrɯl) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): méi (mei$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄟˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mui$^4$ / mei$^4$
* Gan (Wiktionary): mi$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): mûi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuê$^5$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$me
* 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: mui$^4$ / mei$^4$
*** Yale: mùih / mèih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mui$^4$ / mei$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: mui$^4$ / méi$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /muːi̯²¹/, /mei̯²¹/
* mui4 - colloquial;
* mei4 - variant.
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯl/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 霉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9320 |
| Phonetic component | 母 |
| Rime group | 微 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 眉 |
| Old Chinese | /*mrɯl/ |
| Notes | 黴晚起分化字 |

#### Definitions

霉
* to become moldy; mildewed
* (Cantonese, of garment) worn out
       gin$^6$ saam$^1$ zoek$^3$ dou$^3$ mui$^4$ saai$^3$ dou$^1$ m$^4$ hang$^2$ dam$^2$. [Jyutping]
       (please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Compounds

* 倒霉 (dǎoméi)
* 曲霉 (qūméi)
* 發霉 (fāméi)
* 霉乾菜 (méigāncài)
* 霉味
* 霉天
* 霉氣 (méiqì)
* 霉濕
* 霉爛 (méilàn)
* 霉運 (méiyùn)
* 霉雨 (méiyǔ)
* 霉頭

#### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04480
* “霉”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

### Etymology 2
#### Glyph origin

Designated as the simplified form of 黴 in the Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (漢字簡化方案) (1956).

#### Definitions

* For pronunciation and definitions of 霉 – see 黴 (“mold; mildew; must”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 黴).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

#### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04782-010

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* mold

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ばい (bai)、め (me)
* Kun: つゆ (tsuyu)、しめる (shimeru, 霉る)、しみ (shimi)、かび (kabi)、かびる (kabiru, 霉びる)

## Korean
### Hanja

霉 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

霉: Hán Nôm readings: mai, môi
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

#### References

* Nom Foundation