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Translingual

Han character

(radical 50 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大月 (TAKB), four-corner 44227, composition)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 335, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9051
  • Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 749, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5E55

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mraː
*mraːɡs
*maːl
*maː
*maː, *maːɡ
*maː
*maː
*maː, *maːɡ
*maː
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ, *mraːɡ
*maːɡ
*mraːɡ
*mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːɡ) : phonetic  (OC *maːɡ) + semantic  (cloth).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/mɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/mɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mak̚/
Li
Rong
/mɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/mɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mak ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤak/
English covering

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. 9257
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːɡ/

Definitions

  1. curtain; screen; tent

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

(hiragana まく, romaji maku)

  1. curtain
  2. act (division of theatrical performance)

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(mak) (hangeul , revised mak, McCune-Reischauer mak, Yale mak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mạc)

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