靡 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

mí, mǐ

divide

Phonosemantic compound. 非 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.

Components

非 Meaning component

fēi

not

麻 Sound component

má

hemp

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

靡

mí

divide, disperse, scatter; to waste (money)

靡

mǐ

extravagant; go with fashion; not

Most common words with 靡

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	风靡	fashionable
	所向披靡	to sweep everything before one
	靡	not
	萎靡	dispirited
	萎靡不振	dispirited and listless (idiom); downcast

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蘼

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*m(r)aj	mje	mí	to share with
*m(r)ajʔ	mjeX	mǐ	squander
*m(r)ajʔ	mjeX	mǐ	not have, not exist
*m(r)ajʔ	mjeX	mǐ	fall over
*m(r)ajʔ	mjeX	mǐ	small, tiny

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.4256% of movies

3298th most common character in movies

3074th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	19
Unicode	U+9761
Shuowen	“靡，披靡也。从非，麻聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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