彌
mí
extensive, full; fill; complete
Meaning
- Physical Filling: To fill, overflow, or cover an area entirely, often with a nuance of gradual permeation or spreading.
- Temporal/Qualitative Extension: To linger, persist, or stretch out in time.
- Restoration: To fill a gap or smooth over a void to make something whole again.
Grammar and usage
- Verb/Adjective: Used as "to fill" (verb) or "extensive/complete" (adj).
- Adverb of Degree: When preceding an adjective or a verb of state, it can function as an intensifier meaning “more and more” or “increasingly.”
Distinctions
- Distinguishable from 滿 (mǎn) or 充 (chōng) by its emphasis on gradual permeation rather than abrupt filling.
History and forms
- Simplified variant: 弥 (U+5F25).
- Tang-period reading: miɛ.
Translator notes
// In Buddhist texts, this glyph is commonly used as a phonetic transcription for Sanskrit sounds (e.g., the //mi* in Amitābha). If the surrounding text appears to be a mantra or proper name, semantic meanings may not apply.
Decontextualized translator aid. This page describes plausible lexical range; it does not choose what the glyph means in a particular passage.