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姆

姆

Translingual

Han character

姆 (radical 38 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女田卜戈 (VWYI), four-corner 47450, composition ⿰女母)

  1. child's governess
  2. matron

References

  • KangXi: page 258, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6159
  • Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1041, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+59C6

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 姆

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脢 *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴 *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海 *hmlɯːʔ
毐 *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣 *mɯ
拇 *mɯʔ
母 *mɯʔ
胟 *mɯʔ
姆 *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮 *mɯʔ
踇 *mɯʔ
苺 *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓 *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏 *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵 *mrɯŋʔ
慜 *mrɯŋʔ
毋 *ma
梅 *mɯː
酶 *mɯː
鋂 *mɯː
每 *mɯːʔ
毎 *mɯːs
痗 *mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦 *hmɯːs
誨 *hmɯːs
悔 *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉 *mrɯl

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 姆
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /məuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /məuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /məuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məwH/
Li
Rong		 /muH/
Wang
Li		 /məuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mòu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 姆
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ muwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*məʔ/
English female teacher in harem

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 姆 姆 姆
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3
No. 9290 9293 9300
Phonetic
component		 母 母 母
Rime
group		 之 之 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 母 茂
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯʔ/ /*mɯs/ /*maːʔ/

Definitions

姆

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Japanese

Kanji

姆

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

姆 • ‎(mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

姆 (mỗ, mẫu)

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