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耄

耄

耄 U+8004, 耄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8004
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[U+8003] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 者 →
[U+8005]

Translingual

Han character

耄 (radical 125 老+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 十心竹手山 (JPHQU), four-corner 44714)

  1. elderly person
  2. very old, senile

References

  • KangXi: page 960, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28848
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1409, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2781, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8004

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 耄

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 耄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 豪 (89)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫報切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑuH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑuH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mawH/
Li
Rong		 /mɑuH/
Wang
Li		 /mɑuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 耄
Reading # 1/1
No. 8788
Phonetic
component		 毛
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 冃
Old
Chinese		 /*maːws/

Definitions

耄

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Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

耄

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

耄 (mạo)

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