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默
默
See also: 黙
Translingual
| Shinjitai | 黙 |
|---|---|
| Simplified | 默 |
| Traditional | 默 |
Han character
默 (radical 203 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈大 (WFIK), four-corner 63334)
References
- KangXi: page 1519, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063
- Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 24
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4744, character 11
- Unihan data for U+9ED8
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
默 | |
|---|---|---|
| alt. forms | 嘿 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 默
| |
|---|---|
| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (黑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 嚜 | *mrɯɡs |
| 嫼 | *ʔmrɯːd |
| 墨 | *mlɯːɡ |
| 默 | *mlɯːɡ |
| 纆 | *mɯːɡ |
| 黑 | *hmlɯːɡ |
| 潶 | *hmlɯːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mlɯːɡ) : phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”) – a dog silently chasing a person.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
- Wade-Giles: mo4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
- IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mak6
- Yale: mahk
- Cantonese Pinyin: mak9
- IPA (key): /mɐk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hm̍h
- Tâi-lô: hm̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: hmh
- IPA (Xiamen): /hm̩ʔ⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /hm̩ʔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /hm̩ʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /hm̩ʔ⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /hm̩ʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 默 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (131) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫北切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mək̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mək̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mək̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mək̚/ |
| Li Rong |
/mək̚/ |
| Wang Li |
/mək̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mək̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mò |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 默 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 5107 |
| Phonetic component |
黑 |
| Rime group |
職 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
墨 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mlɯːɡ/ |
Definitions
默
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
默
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黙)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
默 • (muk) (hangeul 묵, revised muk, McCune-Reischauer muk, Yale muk)
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