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矛

矛

See also: 予

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

矛 (radical 110 矛+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈弓竹 (NINH), four-corner 17222)

  1. Kangxi radical #110, ⽭ ‎(“spear”).

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 821, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23846
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1233, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2764, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+77DB

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 矛

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 矛
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堥 *muː, *mu
蓩 *muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱 *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅 *mruː
罞 *mruː, *muːŋ
蝥 *mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜 *mruː
瞀 *moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗 *moːɡs
袤 *mus
雺 *mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋 *mus
楙 *mus
矛 *mu
蟊 *mu
髳 *mu, *muːŋ
鍪 *mu
鞪 *mu, *moːɡ
糅 *ml'us
腬 *ml'us, *mlju
柔 *mlju
揉 *mju
蹂 *mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒 *mju
騥 *mju
蝚 *mju
葇 *mju, *mjuʔ
鞣 *mju, *mjus
鰇 *mju
瑈 *mju
鶔 *mju
楺 *mjuʔ
煣 *mjuʔ, *mjus
輮 *mjuʔ, *mjus
韖 *mjuʔ
敄 *moʔ, *mos
務 *moɡs
鶩 *moɡs, *moːɡ
騖 *moɡs
婺 *moɡs
霚 *moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍 *moɡs
霧 *moɡs, *moːŋ
霿 *moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘 *moːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 矛
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 莫浮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɨu/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miu/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /muw/
Li
Rong		 /miu/
Wang
Li		 /mĭəu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 móu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 矛
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjuw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m(r)u/
English a kind of lance

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 矛
Reading # 1/1
No. 8814
Phonetic
component		 矛
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 謀
Old
Chinese		 /*mu/

Definitions

矛

  1. spear; lance

Compounds

  • 丈八蛇矛 (Zhàng bā shémáo)
  • 亡戟得矛
  • 厹矛
  • 大相矛盾
  • 弓矛之士
  • 挺矛 (tǐngmáo)
  • 擲級承矛／掷级承矛
  • 杯酒戈矛
  • 矛盾 (máodùn)
  • 矛盾律
  • 矛盾相向
  • 矛頭／矛头
  • 自相矛盾 (zìxiāngmáodùn)
  • 衛矛／卫矛
  • 酋矛
  • 階級矛盾／阶级矛盾

Japanese

Kanji

矛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
矛
ほこ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

矛 ‎(hiragana ほこ, romaji hoko)

  1. a Chinese spear; a lance; a halberd

Korean

Hanja

矛 • ‎(mo) (hangeul 모, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

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