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牡

牡

See also: 牝

Translingual

Han character

牡 (radical 93 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 24510, composition ⿰牛土)

References

  • KangXi: page 697, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1801, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+7261

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 牡

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mɯwʔ) : semantic 牛 ‎(“cattle”) + phonetic 土 ‎(OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 牡
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫厚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /məuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /məuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /məuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məwX/
Li
Rong		 /muX/
Wang
Li		 /məuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mǒu
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 牡
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǔ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ muwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m(r)uʔ/
English male

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 牡
Reading # 1/1
No. 9321
Phonetic
component		 牡
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 母
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯwʔ/

Definitions

牡

  1. cow
  2. male of animals
  3. bolt of door

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

牡

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

牡 (mẫu)

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