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旄

旄

Translingual

Han character

旄 (radical 70 方+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜尸人竹山 (YSOHU), four-corner 08214, composition ⿸⿰方𠂉毛)

  1. a kind of ancient flag decorated with yak tails
  2. old

References

  • KangXi: page 482, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13642
  • Dae Jaweon: page 844, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2177, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+65C4

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 旄

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (毛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
毛 *maːw, *maːws
髦 *maːw
旄 *maːw, *maːws
芼 *maːw, *maːws
氂 *rɯ, *maːw
枆 *maːw
酕 *maːw
牦 *maːw
耄 *maːws
覒 *maːws
眊 *maːws, *mraːwɢ
耗 *hmaːws
秏 *hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
毣 *mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːw, *maːws) : semantic 㫃 + phonetic 毛 ‎(OC *maːw, *maːws)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 旄 旄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 豪 (89) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 莫袍切 莫報切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maw/ /mawH/
Li
Rong		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Wang
Li		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑu/ /mɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 máo mào
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 旄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ maw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤaw/
English ox-tail pennon

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 旄 旄
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8782 8789
Phonetic
component		 毛 毛
Rime
group		 宵 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 毛 冃
Old
Chinese		 /*maːw/ /*maːws/

Definitions

旄

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Compounds

  • 干旄
  • 擁旄／拥旄
  • 旄丘
  • 旄倪
  • 旄牛
  • 旄鉞／旄钺
  • 旄頭／旄头
  • 旄騎／旄骑
  • 旌旄
  • 白旄 (báimáo)

References

Japanese

Kanji

旄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

旄 • ‎(mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

旄 (mao)

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References

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