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昴

昴

Translingual

Han character

昴 (radical 72 日+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 日竹竹中 (AHHL), four-corner 60727, composition ⿱日卯)

References

  • KangXi: page 494, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13865
  • Dae Jaweon: page 858, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1503, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6634

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 昴

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
卯 *mruːʔ
昴 *mruːʔ
泖 *mruːʔ
茆 *mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅 *m̥ʰruːs
窌 *m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊 *m·rɯːw
貿 *mlus
鄮 *mlus
劉 *m·ru
留 *m·ru, *m·rus
蒥 *m·ru
鶹 *m·ru
騮 *m·ru
榴 *m·ru
瑠 *ru
瘤 *m·ru, *m·rus
遛 *m·ru
鎦 *m·ru
飀 *m·ru
鰡 *m·ru
嵧 *m·ru
餾 *m·ru, *m·rus
瀏 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰 *m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳 *m·ruʔ
珋 *m·ruʔ
罶 *m·ruʔ
嬼 *m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜 *m·rus
霤 *m·rus
廇 *m·rus
塯 *m·rus

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 昴
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫飽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠauX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚauX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mauX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨwX/
Li
Rong		 /mauX/
Wang
Li		 /mauX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mauX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 昴
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mæwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤruʔ/
English the Pleiades

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 昴
Reading # 1/1
No. 8872
Phonetic
component		 卯
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 卯
Old
Chinese		 /*mruːʔ/

Definitions

昴

  1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

Japanese

Kanji

昴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

Readings

Etymology 1

By extension from 統ばる ‎(subaru, “to bunch together; to unite”), due to the way the stars in the constellation all cluster together.

Proper noun

昴 ‎(hiragana すばる, romaji Subaru)

  1. the Pleiades (star cluster)

Etymology 2

Character borrowed for its meaning. See 熟字訓 (jukujikun) for details.

Proper noun

昴 ‎(hiragana すまる, romaji Sumaru)

昴 ‎(hiragana たかし, romaji Takashi)

昴 ‎(hiragana のぼる, romaji Noboru)

  1. a masculine given name

Korean

Hanja

昴 • ‎(myo) (hangeul 묘, McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

昴 (mão, máu)

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