冪

See also: 幂 and 羃
冪 U+51AA, 冪
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51AA
← 冩
[U+51A9] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冫 →
[U+51AB]

Translingual

Han character

冪 (Kangxi radical 14, 冖+14, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月廿日月 (BTAB), four-corner 37227, composition ⿱冖幕)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 131, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1601
  • Dae Jaweon: page 294, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 306, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+51AA

Chinese
trad. 冪
simp. 幂

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (冖) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
冟 *hmjeɡ
冖 *meːɡ
冪 *meːɡ
羃 *meːɡ
濗 *meːɡ
鼏 *meːɡ

Originally written as 幎: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːɡ) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 冥 (OC *meːŋ).

Later the 六 was corrupted to 大 and the character became 幂.

艹 was added to form a new phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːɡ) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 幕 (OC *maːɡ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冪
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 錫 (127)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫狄切
Baxter mek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mek̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mek̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɛk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mɛjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /mek̚/
Wang
Li		 /miek̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /miek̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mì
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 mik6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冪
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mek ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁ[e]k/
English cover

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 冪
Reading # 1/1
No. 9020
Phonetic
component		 冖
Rime
group		 錫
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 覓
Old
Chinese		 /*meːɡ/
Notes 同冖見禮記

Definitions

冪

  1. to cover with cloth
  2. cloth cover
  3. (mathematics) power

Compounds
  • 三次冪／三次幂
  • 乘冪／乘幂
  • 冪冪／幂幂
  • 冪函數／幂函数 (mìhánshù)
  • 冪定律／幂定律
  • 冪律／幂律
  • 冪等／幂等
  • 冪級數／幂级数
  • 冪䍦／幂䍠
  • 冪零／幂零
  • 升冪 (shēngmì)
  • 升冪級數／升幂级数
  • 圓冪／圆幂
  • 降冪／降幂 (jiàngmì)
  • 降冪排列／降幂排列
  • 雲冪／云幂

Japanese

Kanji
冪

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

Etymology
Kanji in this term
冪
べき
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

冪(べき) • (beki) 

  1. (mathematics) a power

Synonyms

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

冪 • (myeok) (hangeul 멱, revised myeok, McCune–Reischauer myŏk)

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