English

1. sound of cat, cat's meow
2. sound for calling a cat
3. (verb) 1. don't; must not; are not; is not; 2. hardly study (adverb) 1. so; might (noun)
4. mic; microphone
5. previously referred to a mile (1.609344 kilometers) but currently to kilometres per hour or kilometres on a milestone; it is a transliteration of "mile" in English; in the old days of the imperial system, miles were used as a unit, so when driving a car, 咪 mai1 was used as a unit of speed; this has since changed, with cars and road signs now using kilometres, however everyone continues to use 咪 mai1 out of habit
6. used in conjunction with an utterance-final 囉 lo1 to spell out something that is obvious in a questioning manner; often translated into tag questions or rhetorical questions in English
7. don't; added in front of a verb to form a negative command
8. to study something hard
9. meter
10. microphone; 2. mile
11. then; used in conjunction with an utterance-final 囉 lo1 or rising intonation to connect a conditional and a result or suggestion
12. (Cant.) don't!
13. if it is followed and preceded by the same verb phrase, it means the speaker does not care about the consequence of the event

粵語

1. 咪高峰嘅簡稱；要將聲音錄低或者放大聲量嗰陣，用嚟收音嘅電子器材（量詞：支）
2. 英文 "mile" 音譯。以前英制時期以英里做單位，所以喺揸車嘅時候會用「咪」嚟做車速嘅量詞。而家嘅車同路牌已經改晒用公里做單位，但因為習慣咗，所以大家口頭上繼續用「咪」嚟形容車速。而家揸車嘅人所講嘅「咪」係指公里。
3. 句尾配「囉」lo1，喺質問／反問嘅時候用嚟帶出顯而易見嘅事實
4. 唔好；加喺動詞之前，用嚟叫人唔好做一件事
5. 非常認真噉閲讀
6. 句尾配「囉」lo1或者上升語調，用喺連接原因同結果或者建議
7. 前後接住同一個動詞短語，表示即使呢件事發生，都冇所謂

As a component in

• 𡁭

Words containing 咪

• 咪嘴mai1 zeoi2

  to lip-sync

• 媽咪maa1 mi4

  mommy (loanword)

• 貓咪maau1 mi1

  kitty (affectionate term for a cat)

• 咪自mai5 zi6

  a similar pronunciation of 咪住, which means stop, hold a second

• 咪話mai5 waa6

  don't say

• 咪書mai1 syu1

  to study hard

• 咪住mai5 zyu6

  hold on; hold it (spoken)

• 係咪hai6 mai6

  used in asking questions in conversations, similar to saying "is it ….?"; "Isn't it?"

• 咪搞mai5 gaau2

  Don't include

• 咪摸mi1 mo1

  dawdle, slow

• 咪錶mai1 biu1

  parking meter

• 咪郁mai5 juk1

  don't move

• 咪高峰mai1 gou1 fung1

  microphone

• 咪嚒mi1 mo1

  to be very slow in doing something; to take a long time to do something [colloquial]

• 大咪daai6 mai1

  Describing a huge chest.

• 開咪hoi1 mai1

  to host a programme or to sing, in public

• 咪制mai5 zai3

  to not be willing to; to not agree; not to do

• 是咪si6 mai6

  "isn't that so?"; whether or not (係 hai6 is replaced with 是 si6, the counterpart in written Chinese)

• 入咪jap6 mai1

  for sounds to be effectively captured by the microphone

• 咪又mai6 jau6

  short form for 咪又係 mai6 jau6 hai6

• 咪表mai1 biu1

  Parking parameter

• 咪架mai1 gaa2

  mic stand

• 封咪fung1 mai1

  (of singers or hosts) to retire; to quit

• 爆咪baau3 mai1

  (of microphones) to give out piercing noises