měi

to request

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

water

免 sound component

  Sound component

miǎnwèn

  

(hat), avoid

Evolution

浼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
浼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

měi

to request; to ask a favour of; to pollute, contaminate; to ask a favor of

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤ[u]rʔ

mwojX

měi

defile (v.)

*mˤərʔ

mwojX

měi

smoothly flowing water


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5934th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D7C

Shuowen

“浼,汙也。从水,免聲。《詩》曰:‘河水浼浼。’《孟子》曰:‘汝安能浼我?’”


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