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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜女木 (YVD), four-corner 00904, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 512, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14470
  • Dae Jaweon: page 897, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1161, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+6757

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bamboo and silk script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ
*maːŋ, *maːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋs
*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*maːŋ, *maŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
*hmaːŋʔ
*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*maŋ
*maŋ
*maŋ, *maŋs
*mlaŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*mlaŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋʔ
*maŋs
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ
*mraːŋ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (106) (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mʉɐŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷiɐŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuɑŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muaŋ/ /maŋ/
Li
Rong
/miuaŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭwaŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/miwaŋ/ /mɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wáng máng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12647 12664
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːŋ/ /*maŋ/

Definitions

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