眲

眲 U+7732, 眲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7732 ← 眱 [U+7731] CJK Unified Ideographs 眳 → [U+7733]

Translingual

Han character

眲 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 月山尸十 (BUSJ), four-corner 6104₀, composition ⿰目耳)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 806, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23298
• Dae Jaweon: page 1222, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2484, character 11
• Unihan data for U+7732

Chinese

simp. and trad.		眲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nè (ne⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄜˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nak⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nè
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄜˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nè
    • Wade–Giles: nê⁴
    • Yale: nè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: neh
    • Palladius: нэ (nɛ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɤ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: nak⁶
    • Yale: nahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: neg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɐk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: nyiH, nreak

Rime
Character	眲	眲
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	娘 (12)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	麥 (119)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	仍吏切	尼戹切
Baxter	nyiH	nreak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵɨH/	/ɳˠɛk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵɨH/	/ɳᵚæk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑieH/	/nɐk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵɨH/	/ɳəɨjk̚/
Li Rong	/ȵiəH/	/nɛk̚/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭəH/	/næk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ȵʑiH/	/næk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	èr	nè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ji6	nak6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤrək/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njɯs/, /*rnɯːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	眲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nè
Middle Chinese	‹ nrɛk ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁrək/
English	disdain
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	眲	眲
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	2795	2796
Phonetic component	耳	耳
Rime group	之	職
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	餌	疒
Old Chinese	/*njɯs/	/*rnɯːɡ/
Notes		見方言

Definitions

眲

1. despise, disdain, look down upon
2. belittle, underrate