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墓

墓

Translingual

Han character

墓 (radical 32 土+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大土 (TAKG), four-corner 44104, composition ⿱莫土)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 238, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5431
  • Dae Jaweon: page 476, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 470, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5893

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 墓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 墓
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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 土.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 墓
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)
Character 墓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ muH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤak-s/
English grave (n.)

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 墓
Reading # 1/1
No. 9250
Phonetic
component		 莫
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 暮
Old
Chinese		 /*maːɡs/

Definitions

墓

  1. grave; tomb

Compounds

  • 丘墓
  • 修墓
  • 公墓 (gōngmù)
  • 冢墓
  • 墓券
  • 墓園／墓园 (mùyuán)
  • 墓地 (mùdì)
  • 墓坑
  • 墓室
  • 墓木
  • 墓木已拱
  • 墓生兒子／墓生儿子
  • 墓田
  • 墓碑 (mùbēi)
  • 墓碣
  • 墓祭
  • 墓穴 (mùxué)
  • 墓葬 (mùzàng)
  • 墓表
  • 墓記／墓记
  • 墓誌／墓志
  • 墓誌銘／墓志铭
  • 墓道 (mùdào)
  • 墓門／墓门
  • 墟墓
  • 墳墓／坟墓 (fénmù)
  • 壟墓／垄墓
  • 封墓
  • 廬墓／庐墓
  • 徒不上墓
  • 掃墓／扫墓
  • 掃墓節／扫墓节
  • 掘墓人
  • 易墓
  • 盜墓／盗墓 (dàomù)
  • 省墓
  • 祖墓 (zǔmù)
  • 自掘墳墓／自掘坟墓
  • 覆墓
  • 誓墓
  • 諛墓／谀墓
  • 鎮墓獸／镇墓兽
  • 陵墓 (língmù)
  • 鞭墓

Japanese

Kanji

墓

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. grave; graveyard

Readings

Compounds

Noun

墓 ‎(hiragana はか, romaji haka)

  1. a grave, a tomb

References

  • New Nelson: 1073
  • Halpern: 2332
  • Halpern Learners: 1505
  • Heisig: 231
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3k10.18
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Korean

Hanja

墓 • ‎(myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

墓 (mộ, mô, mồ)

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