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募
募
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Translingual
Han character
募 (radical 19 力+11, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大尸 (TAKS), four-corner 44427, composition ⿱莫力)
Related characters
References
- KangXi: page 148, character 40
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2416
- Dae Jaweon: page 336, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 376, character 7
- Unihan data for U+52DF
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
募 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 募
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| Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蟆 | *mraː |
| 鬕 | *mraːɡs |
| 饃 | *maːl |
| 模 | *maː |
| 摸 | *maː, *maːɡ |
| 嫫 | *maː |
| 謨 | *maː |
| 膜 | *maː, *maːɡ |
| 摹 | *maː |
| 暮 | *maːɡs |
| 慕 | *maːɡs |
| 募 | *maːɡs |
| 墓 | *maːɡs |
| 慔 | *maːɡs |
| 莫 | *maːɡ |
| 寞 | *maːɡ |
| 漠 | *maːɡ |
| 幕 | *maːɡ |
| 鏌 | *maːɡ |
| 瘼 | *maːɡ |
| 鄚 | *maːɡ |
| 瞙 | *maːɡ |
| 嗼 | *maːɡ, *mraːɡ |
| 塻 | *maːɡ |
| 貘 | *mraːɡ |
| 驀 | *mraːɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːɡs) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 力 (“strength”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: mu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
- IPA (key): /mu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mou6
- Yale: mouh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6
- IPA (key): /mou̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: mu (T3)
- IPA (key): /mv̩ʷ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 募 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 模 (23) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫故切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/muoH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/muoH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/moH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mɔH/ |
| Li Rong |
/moH/ |
| Wang Li |
/muH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/muoH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mù |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 募 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
mù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ muH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mˤak-s/ |
| English | summon |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 募 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9249 |
| Phonetic component |
莫 |
| Rime group |
暮 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
暮 |
| Old Chinese |
/*maːɡs/ |
Definitions
募
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
募
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
募 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo)
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Vietnamese
Han character
募 (mộ)
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