弥

common

ミ/MI/    ビ/BI/    いや/iya/    や/ya/    あまねし/amaneshi/    いよいよ/iyoiyo/    とおい/tōi/    ひさし/hisashi/    ひさ.しい/hisa.shii/    わた.る/wata.ru/MI/ミ/    BI/ビ/    iya/いや/    ya/や/    amaneshi/あまねし/    iyoiyo/いよいよ/    tooi/とおい/    hisashi/ひさし/    hisa.shii/ひさ.しい/    wata.ru/わた.る/

all the more;  increasingly

Radical: 弓 (bow).   Strokes: 8画.   Elements: ノ弓亅小.   Variants: 彌.   Pinyin: mí.   Hangul: 미 [mi].   Nanori: わたる / みつ / ひろ / よwataru / mitsu / hiro / yo.

Jōyō Kanji High School.   JLPT N1.

▸ Stroke order diagram

▸ Example compounds

Example compounds:
ミMI弥勒【みろくmiroku】Maitreya (Bodhisattva); Miroku
阿弥陀【あみだamida】Amitabha
元の木阿弥【もとのもくあみmotonomokuami】ending up right back where one started
ビBI弥久【びきゅうbikyū】extending over a long time
弥縫【びほうbihō】patching up
弥縫策【びほうさくbihōsaku】stopgap measure; temporary expedient
いやiya弥増す【いやますiyamasu】to increase (all the more)
弥が上にも【いやがうえにもiyagauenimo】all the more
弥増さる【いやまさるiyamasaru】to become still greater
やya弥生【やよいyayoi】third month of the lunar calendar; thick growth (of grass, etc.); Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE - 300 CE)
弥次【やじyaji】hooting; jeering; heckling
弥生時代【やよいじだいyayoijidai】Yayoi period (c. 300 BCE-300 CE)

▸ Codes and indices

Codepoints and classification codes:
5f25–Unicode
44-79–JIS X 0208
1-3-5–SKIP
3h5.2–TKD
1829.0–Four Corner
Dictionary indices:
1565–Classic Nelson
1689–The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
288–New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
214–Kanji Learner's Dictionary by J. Halpern
2241–Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
1536–A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage (Gakken)
832–Japanese Names by P.G. O'Neill
1980–Essential Kanji by P.G. O'Neill
9753–Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 4 p. 700
2065–Kanji & Kana by Spahn and Hadamitzky
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