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Translingual

Han character

(radical 140 +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿月一人 (TBMO), four-corner 44232, composition)

  1. to cover
  2. ignorant
  3. suffer
  4. fourth hexagram of the I Ching
  5. Mongolia - radical composition becomes 'grass(land) family'
  6. a surname

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1048, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31555
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1509, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3271, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8499

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/muŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/muŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/məwŋ/
Li
Rong
/muŋ/
Wang
Li
/muŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
méng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
méng
Middle
Chinese
‹ muwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤoŋ/
English cover (v.)

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. 8969
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

References

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
もう
Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

Pronunciation

Pronoun

(hiragana もう, romaji )

  1. humble first-person personal pronoun; I, me
    • c. 1368-1375 Taiheiki (preface)
      窃採古今之変化、察安危之来由、覆而無外天之徳也。

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mông, mong, mòng, mỏng, muống)

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