# 麑

| 麑 | U+9E91, &#40593; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E91 |
| ← 麐 [U+9E90] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 麒 → [U+9E92] |

## Translingual
### Han character

麑 (Kangxi radical 198, 鹿+8, 19 strokes, cangjie input 戈心竹難山 (IPHXU), four-corner 0021$_7$, composition ⿸鹿兒)
* fawn, young deer

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1510, character 23
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47656
* Dae Jaweon: page 2038, character 34
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4733, character 6
* Unihan data for U+9E91

## Chinese
### Etymology

* Historical forms of the character 麑
* Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
* Small seal script
| | Old Chinese |
| 掜 | *rŋeː, *ŋeːʔ |
| 誽 | *rŋeː |
| 倪 | *ŋeː |
| 蜺 | *ŋeː, *ŋeː |
| 霓 | *ŋeː, *ŋeːs, *ŋeː |
| 郳 | *ŋeː |
| 齯 | *ŋeː |
| 婗 | *ŋeː |
| 輗 | *ŋeː |
| 棿 | *ŋeː |
| 猊 | *ŋeː |
| 麑 | *ŋeː |
| 貎 | *ŋeː |
| 鯢 | *ŋeː |
| 兒 | *ŋeː, *ŋje |
| 觬 | *ŋeː, *ŋeːʔ |
| 堄 | *ŋeːʔ, *ŋeːs |
| 晲 | *ŋeːʔ |
| 睨 | *ŋeːs |
| 唲 | *ŋje |
| 隉 | *ŋeːd |
| 鶂 | *ŋeːɡ |
| 鬩 | *ɦŋeːɡ |
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Related to 兒 (OC *ŋeː, *ŋje, “child”)?”

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ní (ni$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄧˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ngai$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ní
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄧˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ní
*** Wade–Giles: ni$^2$
*** Yale: ní
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ni
*** Palladius: ни (ni)
*** Sinological IPA : /ni³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngai$^4$
*** Yale: ngàih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngai$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngei$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɐi̯²¹/
* Middle Chinese: ngej
Rime :
| Character | 麑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 齊 (39) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | IV |
| Fanqie | 五稽切 |
| Baxter | ngej |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋei/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋei/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋɛi/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋɛj/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋei/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋiei/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /ŋiei/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yí |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngai$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-ŋˤe/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋeː/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 麑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | ní |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mej › |
| Old Chinese | /*m-ŋˁe/ |
| English | fawn |
| 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 | 麑 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 2745 |
| Phonetic component | 兒 |
| Rime group | 支 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 倪 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋeː/ |
| Notes | 同猊 |

### Definitions

麑
* fawn; young deer
    Synonym: 麛 (mí)
* Used in 狻麑.

#### Compounds

* 狻麑 (suānní)
* 鉏麑 / 锄麑
* 鉏麑觸槐 / 锄麑触槐
* 麑裘 (níqiú)
* 麑鹿 (nílù)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* fawn

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): げい (gei)、べい (bei)
* Kun: かのこ (kanoko)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 麑
* げい Hyōgai
* on'yomi

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡe̞ː]

### Affix

麑(げい) • (gei)
* (obsolete) Short for 鹿児島／麑島 (Kagoshima, “Kagoshima (a province of Japan)”).

## Korean
### Hanja

麑 • (ye) (hangeul 예, revised ye, McCune–Reischauer ye, Yale yey)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.