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Definition 2024


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Translingual

Han character

(radical 93 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 24510, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 697, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1801, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7261

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯwʔ) : semantic  (cattle) + phonetic  (OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/məuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/məuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/məuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwX/
Li
Rong
/muX/
Wang
Li
/məuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m(r)uʔ/
English male

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. 9321
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯwʔ/

Definitions

  1. cow
  2. male of animals
  3. bolt of door

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mẫu)

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