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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 66 +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹人大 (NHOK), composition)

  1. to put forth effort

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 469, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13160
  • Dae Jaweon: page 820, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1455, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6544

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*muː, *mu
*muːʔ, *moːɡ
*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
*mruː
*mruː, *muːŋ
*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
*mruː
*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
*moːɡs
*mus
*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
*mus
*mus
*mu
*mu
*mu, *muːŋ
*mu
*mu, *moːɡ
*ml'us
*ml'us, *mlju
*mlju
*mju
*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
*mju
*mju
*mju
*mju, *mjuʔ
*mju, *mjus
*mju
*mju
*mju
*mjuʔ
*mjuʔ, *mjus
*mjuʔ, *mjus
*mjuʔ
*moʔ, *mos
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːɡ
*moɡs
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːŋ
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːŋ
*moːŋ, *moːŋs
*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moʔ, *mos) :  + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (24) (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨoX/ /mɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mioX/ /mioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mioX/ /mioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muə̆X/ /muə̆H/
Li
Rong
/mioX/ /mioH/
Wang
Li
/mĭuX/ /mĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uX/ /mi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8848 8857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moʔ/ /*mos/

References