彌 (mí)
To fill; to make up for (bound form used in 彌補)
How 彌 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 弓 — bow
- Traditional
- 彌
- Simplified
- 弥
Components
- 弓 bow
- 一 one
- 丨 line
- 八 eight/divide
- 巾 turban/scarf
- 㸚 N/A
Common words using 彌
- 彌漫 mímàn
- to pervade; to fill the air; diffuse
- 彌補 míbǔ
- to complement; to make up for a deficiency
- 阿彌陀佛 ēmítuófó
- Amitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!
- 彌勒 mílè
- Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan; Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
- 彌勒佛 mílèfó
- Maitreya; the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
- 彌撒 mísa
- (Catholic) Mass
- 彌留 míliú
- seriously ill and about to die
- 欲蓋彌彰 yùgàimízhāng
- trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse.
- 彌勒縣 mílèxiàn
- Mile county in Honghe Hani and Yi autonomous prefecture, Yunnan
- 彌合 míhé
- to cause a wound to close up and heal
- 彌天 mítiān
- filling the entire sky; covering everything (of fog, crime, disaster etc)
- 彌散 mísàn
- to dissipate everywhere (of light, sound, gas etc)
彌 in a sentence
我想彌補我的錯誤。
Wǒ xiǎng míbǔ wǒ de cuòwù.
“I want to make up for my mistake.”
How common is 彌?
彌 is the 1,783rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.2% of all running text.
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