糎

糎 U+7CCE, 糎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CCE ← 糍 [U+7CCD] CJK Unified Ideographs 糏 → [U+7CCF]

Translingual

Han character

糎 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 火木一田土 (FDMWG), composition ⿰米厘)

Further reading

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 911, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27057
• Dae Jaweon: page 1338, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 5, page 3154, character 10
• Unihan data for U+7CCE

Chinese

trad.		糎
simp. #		糎

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 糎.

Etymology

Spelling pronunciation, as 厘, or read semantically as 米 (mǐ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lí (li²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lei⁴ / mai⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lí
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lí
    • Wade–Giles: li²
    • Yale: lí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: li
    • Palladius: ли (li)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lei⁴ / mai⁵
    • Yale: lèih / máih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lei⁴ / mai⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: léi⁴ / mei⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lei̯²¹/, /mɐi̯¹³/

Definitions

糎

1. (dated) centimetre (cm)

   Synonyms: 釐米 (límǐ), 公分 (gōngfēn)

2. (dated) millimetre (mm)

   Synonyms: 毫米 (háomǐ), 公釐 (gōnglí)

References

• Jyutping Database (iso10646hk.net) - Cantonese Pronunciation List (Part 1), p. 174

Japanese

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 米 (“metre”) + 厘 (“one hundredth”). A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”).

Kanji

糎

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. centimeter

Readings

• Kun: センチメートル (senchimētoru, 糎)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
糎
センチメートル Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 糎 – see the following entry.

【センチメートル】 [noun] centimetre [counter] centimetre

(This term, 糎, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)