# 眄

| 眄 | U+7704, &#30468; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7704 |
| ← 眃 [U+7703] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 眅 → [U+7705] |

## Translingual
### Han character

眄 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山一中尸 (BUMLS), four-corner 6102$_7$, composition ⿰目丏)

#### Derived characters

* 㴐

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 802, character 12
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23182
* Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 14
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2472, character 4
* Unihan data for U+7704

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

* Historical forms of the character 眄
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 汅 | *menʔ |
| 沔 | *menʔ |
| 丏 | *meːnʔ |
| 眄 | *meːnʔ, *meːns |
| 麪 | *meːns |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): miǎn, miàn (mian$^3$, mian$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˇ, ㄇㄧㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): min$^5$ / min$^6$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): meng$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): bián / biān
    (Teochew, Peng'im): miang$^2$ / miêng$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miǎn
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miǎn
*** Wade–Giles: mien$^3$
*** Yale: myǎn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mean
*** Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛn²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miàn
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miàn
*** Wade–Giles: mien$^4$
*** Yale: myàn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miann
*** Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɛn⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: min$^5$ / min$^6$
*** Yale: míhn / mihn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: min$^5$ / min$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: min$^5$ / min$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /miːn¹³/, /miːn²²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian, Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: meng$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɛŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bián / biān
*** Tâi-lô: bián / biān
*** Phofsit Daibuun: biern, bien
*** IPA (Xiamen): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /biɛn⁵⁵⁴/, /biɛn⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /biɛn⁵³/, /biɛn³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɛn⁴¹/, /biɛn³³/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: miang$^2$ / miêng$^2$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: miáng / miéng
*** Sinological IPA : /miaŋ⁵²/, /mieŋ⁵²/
* miang2 - Shantou;
* miêng2 - Chaozhou.
* Middle Chinese: menX, menH
Rime :
| Character | 眄 | 眄 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 先 (85) | 先 (85) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | IV | IV |
| Fanqie | 彌殄切 | 莫甸切 |
| Baxter | menX | menH |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /men$^X$/ | /men$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /men$^X$/ | /men$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mɛn$^X$/ | /mɛn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mɛn$^X$/ | /mɛn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /men$^X$/ | /men$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /mien$^X$/ | /mien$^H$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /mien$^X$/ | /mien$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | miǎn | miàn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | min$^5$ | min$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤe[n]ʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*meːnʔ/, /*meːns/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 眄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | miǎn |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ men$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*mˁe[n]ʔ/ |
| English | look askance |
| 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 | 眄 | 眄 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 9061 | 9063 |
| Phonetic component | 丏 | 丏 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 㨠 | 麫 |
| Old Chinese | /*meːnʔ/ | /*meːns/ |

### Definitions

眄
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to look sideways; to look askance; to give a sidelong glance
* (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to look; to gaze

#### Compounds

* 凝眄
* 恩眄
* 流眄 (liúmiǎn)
* 渥眄
* 眄眄
* 眄睨
* 眄睞 / 眄睐
* 睇眄
* 美眄
* 顧眄 / 顾眄

### References

* “眄”, 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–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “眄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 157.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* looking askance

#### Readings

* Go-on: めん (men)
* Kan-on: べん (ben)
* Kun: かえりみる (kaerimiru, 眄みる)、ながしめ (nagashime)、みる (miru, 眄る)

## Korean
### Hanja

眄 (eum 면 (myeon))
* to look askance
* looking dull