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牧

牧

See also: 攼

Translingual

Han character

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

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.
 牧

Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 牛 ‎(“cow”) + 攴 ‎(“a whip”) – to herd.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 牧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 屋 (4)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 莫六切
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		 mù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 牧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mù
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 牧
Reading # 1/1
No. 9335
Phonetic
component		 牧
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 目
Old
Chinese		 /*mɯɡ/

Definitions

牧

  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

牧

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Proper noun

牧 ‎(hiragana まき, romaji Maki)

  1. A surname​.

Korean

Hanja

牧 • ‎(mok) (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune-Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

牧 (mục, mặt)

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