漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
未: un-, not yet
Also: hitherto, still, even now, sign of the ram, 1-3PM, eighth sign of Chinese zodiac
JLPT N35 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met
5 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ミmi · on'yomi · in compounds
- 未来みらいfuture [n.]
- 未完成みかんせいunfinished
- 未払いみはらいunpaid
- 未婚みこんunmarried
- 未成年みせいねんminority (as in age) [n.]
- 未熟なみじゅくなinexperienced, immature
- 前代未聞ぜんだいみもんunheard-of
いまだimada · kun'yomi · on its own
- 未だいまだ/まだas yet
Also read ビ, まだ, ひつじ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
未 gives its sound to
The family reading is ミ (mi). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Also read ミ
5 kanji share this on'yomiAlso read ビ
7 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · wèi
Same form: 未 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 未 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 未 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin wèi most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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