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慕

慕

Translingual

Han character

慕 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大心 (TAKP), four-corner 44333, composition ⿱莫㣺)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 398, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11088
  • Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 27
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2340, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6155

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 慕
Bronze inscriptions Large seal script 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 㣺 ‎(“heart”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 慕
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 慕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ muH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*(C.)mˤak-s/
English love; long for

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 慕
Reading # 1/1
No. 9248
Phonetic
component		 莫
Rime
group		 暮
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 暮
Old
Chinese		 /*maːɡs/

Definitions

慕

  1. to admire; to adore
  2. to long for; to desire; to yearn

Compounds

  • 不慕
  • 仰慕 (yǎngmù)
  • 企慕
  • 傾慕／倾慕
  • 嚮慕／向慕 (xiàngmù)
  • 孺慕
  • 弋者何慕
  • 心慕手追
  • 心慕筆追／心慕笔追
  • 思慕 (sīmù)
  • 怨慕
  • 想慕
  • 愛慕／爱慕 (àimù)
  • 感慕
  • 慕勢／慕势
  • 慕化
  • 慕古
  • 慕名
  • 慕名而來／慕名而来
  • 慕容 (Mùróng)
  • 慕效
  • 慕義／慕义
  • 慕羶
  • 慕藺／慕蔺
  • 慕道
  • 慕顧／慕顾
  • 戀慕／恋慕
  • 敬慕
  • 景慕
  • 欽慕／钦慕
  • 歆慕
  • 永慕
  • 注慕
  • 渴慕
  • 百慕達／百慕达
  • 終天之慕／终天之慕
  • 羨慕／羡慕 (xiànmù)
  • 羶慕
  • 蟻慕／蚁慕
  • 貪位慕祿／贪位慕禄
  • 貪榮慕利／贪荣慕利
  • 貪財慕勢／贪财慕势
  • 趨財慕勢／趋财慕势
  • 軫慕／轸慕
  • 那達慕／那达慕
  • 鄉風慕義／乡风慕义

Japanese

Kanji

慕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. pining

Readings

Korean

Hanja

慕 • ‎(mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慕 (mộ, mồ)

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