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毫

毫

Translingual

Han character

毫 (radical 82 毛+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input X卜口月山 (XYRBU) or 卜口月山 (YRBU), four-corner 00714, composition ⿱⿳亠口冖毛)

References

  • KangXi: page 593, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 16831
  • Dae Jaweon: page 985, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1999, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+6BEB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 毫

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (高) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
高 *kaːw
膏 *kaːw, *kaːws
篙 *kaːw
稿 *kaːwʔ
稾 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːws
槁 *kaːwʔ, *kʰaːwʔ
縞 *kaːwʔ, *kaːws
暠 *kaːwʔ
槀 *kaːwʔ
藁 *kaːwʔ
燺 *kʰaːwʔ
薧 *kʰaːwʔ, *kʰaːws, *qʰaːw
犒 *kʰaːws
蒿 *qʰaːw
藃 *qʰaːws, *qʰraːw, *qʰraw
豪 *ɡaːw
毫 *ɡaːw
壕 *ɡaːw
濠 *ɡaːw
鎬 *ɡaːwʔ
滈 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰraːwɢ
鄗 *ɡaːwʔ, *kʰraːw, *qʰaːwɢ
鰝 *ɡaːwʔ, *qʰaːwɢ
薃 *ɡaːwʔ
搞 *kruːʔ
敲 *kʰraːw, *kʰraːws
髇 *qʰraːw
嗃 *qʰraːw, *qʰraːws, *qʰaːwɢ
巐 *kʰl'awʔ
歊 *qʰraw, *qʰoːwɢ
謞 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰraːwɢ
熇 *qʰaːwɢ, *qʰoːwɢ, *qʰoːɡ
碻 *kʰraːwɢ
塙 *kʰraːwɢ
毃 *kʰraːwɢ
翯 *qʰraːwɢ, *ɡraːwɢ, *ɡoːwɢ
瀥 *qʰraːwɢ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 毫
Mandarin Beijing /xɑu³⁵/
Harbin /xau²⁴/
Tianjin /xɑu⁴⁵/
Jinan /xɔ⁴²/
Qingdao /xɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /xau⁴²/
Xi'an /xau²⁴/
Xining /xɔ²⁴/
Yinchuan /xɔ⁵³/
Lanzhou /xɔ⁵³/
Ürümqi /xɔ⁵¹/
Wuhan /xau²¹³/
Chengdu /xau³¹/
Guiyang /xao²¹/
Kunming /xɔ³¹/
Nanjing /xɔo²⁴/
Hefei /xɔ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xau¹¹/
Pingyao /xɔ¹³/
Hohhot /xɔ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /ɦɔ²³/
Suzhou /ɦæ¹³/
Hangzhou /ɦɔ²¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦɜ³¹/
Hui Shexian /xɔ⁴⁴/
Tunxi /xə⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /xau¹³/
Xiangtan /ɦaɯ¹²/
Gan Nanchang /hɑu²⁴/
Hakka Meixian /hau¹¹/
Taoyuan /ho¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hou²¹/
Nanning /hu²¹/
Hong Kong /hou²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ho³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /ho⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /au²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hau⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /hau³¹/
Rime
Character 毫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 胡刀切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɑu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦɑu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣɑu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦaw/
Li
Rong		 /ɣɑu/
Wang
Li		 /ɣɑu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣɑu/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 háo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 毫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 háo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ haw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ˤaw/
English fine animal hair

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 毫
Reading # 1/1
No. 3748
Phonetic
component		 高
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 豪
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡaːw/

Definitions

毫

  1. fine hair
  2. measure of length
  3. 1/1000; the number 10-3; the SI unit prefix milli-

Compounds

See also

  • Chinese Numeral 毫

References

Japanese

Kanji

毫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

毫 • ‎(ho) (hangeul 호, revised ho, McCune-Reischauer ho, Yale ho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

毫 (hào)

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