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Translingual

Han character

(radical 93 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹手人大 (HQOK), four-corner 28540, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 698, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19950
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1803, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+7267

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bamboo and silk script Large seal script Small seal script

Ideogrammic compound (會意) :  (cow) +  (a whip) – to herd.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨuk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/miuk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/miuk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muwk̚/
Li
Rong
/miuk̚/
Wang
Li
/mĭuk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*mək/
English to herd, herdsman

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9335
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯɡ/

Definitions

  1. to herd; to tend; to breed livestock
  2. herdsman; herder; shepherd
  3. to govern; to rule
  4. (historical) overlord; ruler (of one of the nine ancient city states in China)
  5. Short for 畜牧業畜牧业 (xùmùyè, “animal husbandry”).
  6. (Min Dong) to heal; to cure
  7. A surname.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Proper noun

(hiragana まき, romaji Maki)

  1. A surname.

Korean

Hanja

(mok) (hangeul , revised mok, McCune-Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mục, mặt)

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