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邈
邈
Translingual
Han character
邈 (radical 162 辵+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 卜月竹山 (YBHU), four-corner 37301)
References
- KangXi: page 1267, character 10
 - Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39198
 - Dae Jaweon: page 1765, character 19
 - Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3892, character 13
 - Unihan data for U+9088
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
邈 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (皃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 貌 | *mreːwɢs | 
| 皃 | *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ | 
| 藐 | *mawʔ, *mraːwɢ | 
| 邈 | *mraːwɢ | 
Pronunciation
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˇ
 - Wade-Giles: miao3
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meau
 - IPA (key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mok6, miu5
 - Yale: mohk, míuh
 - Cantonese Pinyin: mok9, miu5
 - IPA (key): /mɔːk̚²/, /miːu̯¹³/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 邈 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 
| Final (韻) | 覺 (10) | 
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | II | 
| Fanqie | 莫角切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/mˠʌk̚/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/mᵚɔk̚/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/mɔk̚/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/maɨwk̚/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/mɔk̚/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/mɔk̚/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/mɔk̚/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
mò | 
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 邈 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin)  | 
miǎo | 
| Middle Chinese  | 
‹ mæwk › | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*mˤrawk/ | 
| English | distant | 
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: 					* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;  | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 邈 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 8935 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
皃 | 
| Rime group  | 
藥 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
邈 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*mraːwɢ/ | 
Definitions
邈
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Japanese
Kanji
邈
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
邈 • (mak) (hangeul 막, revised mak, McCune-Reischauer mak, Yale mak)
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Vietnamese
Han character
邈 (mạc)
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