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拇
拇
Translingual
Han character
拇 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手田卜戈 (QWYI), four-corner 57050, composition ⿰扌母)
References
- KangXi: page 424, character 22
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11944
- Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1862, character 5
- Unihan data for U+62C7
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
拇 | |
|---|---|---|
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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯʔ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ
- Wade-Giles: mu3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muu
- IPA (key): /mu²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mou5
- Yale: móuh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou5
- IPA (key): /mou̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bú
- Tâi-lô: bú
- Phofsit Daibuun: buo
- IPA (Xiamen): /bu⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bu⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bu⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /bu⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bu⁴¹/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫厚切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/məuX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/məuX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/məuX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/məwX/ |
| Li Rong |
/muX/ |
| Wang Li |
/məuX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mə̯uX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mǒu |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 拇 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9287 |
| Phonetic component |
母 |
| Rime group |
之 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
母 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mɯʔ/ |
Definitions
拇
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
拇
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
拇 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
拇 (mẫu)
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