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帽
帽
Translingual
Han character
帽 (radical 50 巾+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 中月日月山 (LBABU), four-corner 46260, composition ⿰巾冒)
References
- KangXi: page 333, character 19
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8971
- Dae Jaweon: page 640, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 747, character 8
- Unihan data for U+5E3D
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
帽 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms |
冃 㡌 𧛕 |
|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (冃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 媢 | *mɯɡs, *muːʔ, *muːɡs, *muːɡ |
| 冃 | *muːɡs |
| 冒 | *muːɡs, *mɯːɡ |
| 帽 | *muːɡs |
| 瑁 | *muːɡs, *mɯːɡs, *muːɡ |
| 賵 | *m̥ʰuŋs |
| 艒 | *mɯːɡ, *muːɡ, *muːɡ |
| 萺 | *muːɡ, *muɡ |
| 勗 | *hmoɡ |
| 勖 | *hmoɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *muːɡs) : semantic 巾 (“cloth”) + phonetic 冒 (OC *muːɡs, *mɯːɡ) – a cloth hat.
Etymology
“Head scarf, head cover” of the Southern indigenous people (Shuowen); “scepter cover” (Zhouli); “hat” (Hanshu).
Wanderwort of Southeastern and Eastern Asia. The explanation in Shuowen alludes to a Southern origin, hence compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *muuk ~ muək (“hat”) (Khmer មួក (muŏk), Mon ဒမှော် (həmok, “wide hat”)), Thai หมวก (mùuak, “hat, cap”) and Lao ຫມວກ (mūak). On the other hand, this word is closely related to 冒 (mào, “to cover; hat”), Tibetan རྨོག (rmog, “helmet”) and Burmese အမောက် (a.mauk, “crest (of hair); comb”), for which Starostin posits Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mōk (“hat”), a derivative of *mō(s) (“to cover”).
Cognate with 鍪 (móu, “metal cap; helmet”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mou6, mou6-2
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mo
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): mau (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: mao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
- IPA (key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
-

- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋㄦ
- Wade-Giles: maorh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maull
- IPA (key): /maʊɻʷ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mou6, mou6-2
- Yale: mouh, móu
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6, mou6-2
- IPA (key): /mou̯²²/, /mou̯²²⁻³⁵/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mo
- Hakka Romanization System: mo
- Hagfa Pinyim: mo4
- IPA: /mo⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō
- Tâi-lô: bō
- Phofsit Daibuun: boi
- IPA (Xiamen): /bɤ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bɤ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɤ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /bo³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɤ³³/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: bho7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bō
- IPA (key): /bo¹¹/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: mau (T3)
- IPA (key): /mɔ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 帽 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /mɑu⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /mau⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /mɑu⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /mɔ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /mɔ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /mau³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /mau⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /mɔ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /mɔ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /mɔ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /mɔ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /mau³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /mau¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /mao²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /mɔ²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /mɔo⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /mɔ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /mau⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /mɔ³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /mɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /mɔ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /mæ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /mɔ¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /mɜ²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /mɔ²²/ |
| Tunxi | /mən²⁴/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha |
/mau⁵⁵/ /mau¹¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /maɯ²¹/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /mɑu²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /mau⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /mo⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /mou³⁵/ |
| Nanning | /mu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /mou³⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /bo²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /mɔ²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /mau⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /bo³¹/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /mau³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 帽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 豪 (89) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫報切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mɑuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mɑuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mɑuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mawH/ |
| Li Rong |
/mɑuH/ |
| Wang Li |
/mɑuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mɑuH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mào |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 帽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
mào |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ mawH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mˤuk-s/ |
| English | hat |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 帽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8917 |
| Phonetic component |
冃 |
| Rime group |
奧 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
冃 |
| Old Chinese |
/*muːɡs/ |
| Notes | 見漢賦,說文作冃 |
Definitions
帽
Synonyms
| Dialectal synonyms of 帽子 (“hat”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 冠、帽 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 帽子 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 帽子 |
| Taiwan | 帽子 | |
| Jinan | 帽子 | |
| Xi'an | 帽子 | |
| Wuhan | 帽子 | |
| Chengdu | 帽子 | |
| Yangzhou | 帽子 | |
| Hefei | 帽子 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 帽 |
| Hong Kong | 帽 | |
| Yangjiang | 帽 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 帽子 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 帽仔 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 帽仔 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 帽仔 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 帽仔 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 帽 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 帽仔、帽 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 帽 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 帽子、帽兒 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 帽 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 帽 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 帽仔 |
| Xiamen | 帽仔 | |
| Zhangzhou | 帽仔 | |
| Taipei | 帽仔 | |
| Kaohsiung | 帽仔 | |
| Tainan | 帽仔 | |
| Taichung | 帽仔 | |
| Yilan | 帽仔 | |
| Lukang | 帽仔 | |
| Sanxia | 帽仔 | |
| Kinmen | 帽 | |
| Magong | 帽 | |
| Hsinchu | 帽仔 | |
| Malaysia | 帽 | |
| Chaozhou | 帽 | |
| Wu | Suzhou | 帽子 |
| Wenzhou | 帽 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 帽子 |
| Shuangfeng | 帽子 | |
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
帽 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo)
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