每

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

every

HSK 3

měi

マイ、バイ

つね

매

Pictograph of a woman (母) with a hairpin in her hair. In ancient China, women of marriageable age wore a hairpin. Based on the original meaning "young woman" The current meaning is a phonetic loan.

Components

◎ characterless component+ 母 mother =

每 every

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts a hairpin.

母 Iconic component

mǔ mother

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze

Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

每

Regular

Modern

Chinese

每 [měi]

each; every

Japanese

毎ごと同音

nounn-sufadverb usually kana each; every

毎まい同音

prefix every (usu. with events, e.g. every weekend); each

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (2)

私たちには内緒ごとは何もない。

We have no secrets from each other.

ベッドメーキングは毎日しますか。

Should I make my bed every day?

CHINESE WORDS (49)

每个人 [měigerén] #2,129

everybody

每个人 [měigerén] #2,129

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KOREAN WORDS (4)