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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #110, (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.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
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
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8814
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mu/

Definitions

  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

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
ほこ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana ほこ, romaji hoko)

  1. a Chinese spear; a lance; a halberd

Korean

Hanja

(mo) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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