咩

See also: 羋 and 哶

咩	U+54A9, 咩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54A9

← 咨
[U+54A8]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咪 →
[U+54AA]

Translingual

Han character

咩 (radical 30, 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口廿手 (RTQ), four-corner 6805₁, composition ⿰口羊)

References

KangXi: page 186, character 13
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3540
Dae Jaweon: page 405, character 34
Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 622, character 5
Unihan data for U+54A9

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咩
variant forms		羋／芈𠴟哶

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miē (mie¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄝ
Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): me / meh / me̍h / mia

(Teochew, Peng'im): mêh⁸ / mêh⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: miē
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄝ
  - Wade–Giles: mieh¹
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhie
  - IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: me¹
  - Yale: mē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: me¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mé¹
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: me
  - Tâi-lô: me
  - Phofsit Daibuun: mef
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /mẽ⁴⁴/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: meh
  - Tâi-lô: meh
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meq
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mẽʔ³²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ⁵/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: me̍h
  - Tâi-lô: me̍h
  - Phofsit Daibuun: meh
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /mẽʔ²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mia
  - Tâi-lô: mia
  - Phofsit Daibuun: miaf
  - IPA (Xiamen): /miã⁴⁴/

Note:

Xiamen:
- me - vernacular;
- mia - literary.

- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mêh⁸ / mêh⁴
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: me̍h / meh
  - IPA ^(key): /meʔ⁴/, /meʔ²/

Definitions

咩

baa! (the bleating of a sheep)

Compounds

羊咩

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		咩

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): me¹

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: me¹
  - Yale: mē
  - Cantonese Pinyin: me¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: mé¹
  - IPA ^(key): /mɛː⁵⁵/

Definitions

咩

(Cantonese)

An interrogative particle.
唔係咩？ / 唔系咩？ [Cantonese] ― M⁴ hai⁶ me¹? [Jyutping] ― It's not?
Contraction of 乜嘢 (mat1 je5, “what”).
欸！喺度諗緊咩呀？ [Cantonese, trad.]
欸！喺度谂紧咩呀？ [Cantonese, simp.]
From: 陳慧嫻, 紅茶館
E¹! Hai² dou⁶ nam² gan² me¹ aa³? [Jyutping]
Hey, so what are you thinking about?

咩呀？ [Cantonese] ― Me¹ aa³? [Jyutping] ― What do you want?/What is it?
which
why; how come

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 什麼 (“what”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		什麼
Mandarin	Beijing	什麼
	Taiwan	什麼
	Tianjin	嘛
	Harbin	啥
	Shenyang	什麼, 啥
	Jinan	麼兒, 麼, 什麼
	Muping	麼, 麼個
	Luoyang	啥
	Wanrong	色
	Xi'an	啥
	Xining	啥
	Xuzhou	啥, 啥子
	Yinchuan	啥
	Ürümqi	啥
	Wuhan	麼事
	Chengdu	啥, 啥子
	Guiyang	哪樣
	Liuzhou	什嗎
	Kunming	什麼
	Nanjing	什麼
	Hefei	哄個
	Nantong	甚呢
Cantonese	Guangzhou	乜, 乜嘢, 乜嘢嘢, 咩, 咩嘢, 乜鬼 emphatic
	Hong Kong	乜, 乜嘢, 乜嘢嘢, 咩, 咩嘢
	Taishan	乜
	Dongguan	乜, 乜嘢
	Yangjiang	乜, 乜嘢
Gan	Nanchang	什哩
	Lichuan	什仔
	Pingxiang	咋個
Hakka	Meixian	麼個
	Xingning	麼個
	Huidong (Daling)	麼個
	Qujiang	麼個
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	麼個
	Changting	麼個
	Pingyu	麼個
	Wuping	麼個
	Liancheng	麼個
	Yudu	子個
	Ruijin	咩, 唔幾
	Shicheng	什麼
	Shangyou	哪項, 口哪
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	麼個
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	麼個
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	麼個
	Dongshi (Dabu)	麼個
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	麼個
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	麼個
Huizhou	Jixi	麼仂
Jin	Taiyuan	甚
Jin	Xinzhou	甚
Min Bei	Jian'ou	孰事, 孰麼
Min Dong	Fuzhou	什乇, 什名, 什乇名, 面乇名
Min Dong	Matsu	什乇
Min Nan	Xiamen	什物, 啥物, 啥貨
	Quanzhou	什物, 啥物, 乜
	Zhangzhou	哪貨仔, 哪貨, 哪仔, 哪物仔, 哪物, 什物, 啥物, 啥貨
	Taipei	啥貨, 啥物, 啥
	Kaohsiung	啥, 啥貨, 啥物
	Tainan	啥物, 啥貨
	Taichung	啥
	Hsinchu	啥
	Lukang	啥物, 啥貨
	Sanxia	啥
	Yilan	啥貨
	Kinmen	啥貨, 啥物, 物代
	Magong	啥貨, 物代
	Penang	何物
	Singapore	什物
	Philippines (Manila)	啥物
	Chaozhou	乜個, 乜
	Haikou	乜, 個乜
	Leizhou	乜
Pinghua	Nanning	門, 哪門
Wu	Shanghai	啥, 啥個
	Suzhou	啥
	Hangzhou	啥
	Wenzhou	何呢
	Chongming	何
	Danyang	點高
	Jinhua	待, 淡
	Ningbo	啥
Xiang	Changsha	麼子
	Shuangfeng	麼子
	Loudi	麼子

Dialectal synonyms of 為什麼 (“why”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		為何, 何以, 何, 緣何, 胡, 奚, 曷
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		為何, 因何, 為什麼
Mandarin	Beijing	為什麼
	Taiwan	為什麼
	Tianjin	為嘛
	Harbin	為啥
	Jinan	為麼
	Muping	為麼, 為麼個
	Xi'an	為啥
	Xining	為啥
	Xuzhou	為啥, 擁啥, 擁什麼
	Yinchuan	為啥
	Lanzhou	為啥
	Ürümqi	為啥
	Wuhan	做麼事, 為麼事
	Chengdu	為啥子
	Guiyang	為哪樣, 為些哪樣
	Liuzhou	為什嗎
	Yangzhou	甚們事, 做事, 為甚們 formal
	Nanjing	為什麼
Cantonese	Guangzhou	點解, 做乜, 做乜嘢, 為乜, 為乜為物, 做乜事幹, 因乜事幹, 因乜解究, 因乜緣故, 何解, 乜, 咩
	Hong Kong	點解, 做乜, 做乜嘢, 做咩, 為乜, 為咩, 做乜事幹, 因乜事幹, 因乜解究, 因乜緣故, 何解, 乜, 咩
	Foshan	點解
	Shunde	為乜嘢
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	為乜嘢
	Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)	點解
	Doumen	點解
	Taishan	幾好, 幾解, 做乜, 為乜, 乜頭路
	Kaiping (Chikan)	幾解
	Dongguan	點解, 做乜嘢, 做乜, 為乜嘢
Gan	Nanchang	為什哩
Gan	Pingxiang	為咋個, 為咋哩, 做咋個, 做咋哩, 何解
Hakka	Meixian	做麼個
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	做麼個
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	做麼個
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	做麼個
	Dongshi (Dabu)	做麼個
	Hsinchu (Raoping)	做麼個
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	做麼個
Jin	Taiyuan	為甚, 因為甚
Jin	Xinzhou	𠰻們
Min Bei	Jian'ou	做孰事
Min Dong	Fuzhou	蔣其, 蔣講, 做什乇, 做什名, 幹乜勢, 快勢
Min Dong	Matsu	為什乇, 蔣其, 蔣講, 做什乇, 快勢
Min Nan	Xiamen	為甚物, 按怎, 物代
	Quanzhou	按怎, 物代
	Zhangzhou	按怎
	Taipei	為啥物, 是按怎
	Penang	啥物事, 做物事, 做物
	Chaozhou	做呢
	Haikou	作乜, 作個乜, 作乜物, 因乜, 因個乜
	Leizhou	做乜, 因乜
Pinghua	Nanning	做門, 做哪門, 為哪門
Wu	Shanghai	啥體, 為啥, 啥講究, 啥個講究, 啥個路道, 啥個緣故
	Suzhou	為啥, 為點啥
	Hangzhou	為啥
	Wenzhou	妝乜, 為乜事幹
	Chongming	為何, 做何
	Danyang	為點高, 做點高
	Jinhua	為淡事幹, 為待西
Xiang	Changsha	為麼子, 何解
Xiang	Loudi	嗎介

Japanese

Kanji

咩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): び (bi); み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

咩 • (mi) (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune–Reischauer mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咩 (mã, me)

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References

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