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戊
戊
See also: 戍
Translingual
Han character
戊 (radical 62 戈+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹 (IH), four-corner 53200, composition ⿰丿戈)
- the fifth of the ten heavenly stems
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 411, character 3
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11532
- Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 7
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1397, character 4
- Unihan data for U+620A
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
戊 | |
|---|---|---|
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
- Wade-Giles: wu4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
- IPA (key): /u⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mou6
- Yale: mouh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6
- IPA (key): /mou̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
- Tâi-lô: bōo
- Phofsit Daibuun: bo
- IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /bɔ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 戊 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /u⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /u⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /u⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /u⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /vu⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /u⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /vu⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /v̩⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /vu⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /vu¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | ||
| Wuhan | /u³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /u¹³/ | |
| Guiyang | /u²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /u²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing | /u⁴⁴/ | |
| Hefei | /u⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /vu⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | ||
| Hohhot | /vu⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /ɦu²³/ |
| Suzhou | /vu³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /ɦu¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /møy²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /u²²/ |
| Tunxi | /u¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /u⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /u⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /u²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /vu⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /vu⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /mou²²/ |
| Nanning | /mu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /mou²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /bɔ²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /muɔ²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /mu⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /bou³¹/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /vu³³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 戊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫候切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/məuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/məuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/məuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/məwH/ |
| Li Rong |
/muH/ |
| Wang Li |
/məuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mə̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mòu |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 戊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wù |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ muwH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*m(r)uʔ-s/ (~ *m(r)uʔ) |
| English | 5th heavenly stem |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 戊 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13226 |
| Phonetic component |
戊 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
茂 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mus/ |
| Notes | 朱芳圃雲劉之初文 |
Definitions
戊
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #1657”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
戊
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
戊 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
戊 (mậu, mồ)
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Etymology
| Historical forms of the character 戊
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|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (戊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 茂 | *mus |
| 戊 | *mus |
Pictogram (象形) : A halberd