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磨

磨

See also: 磿

Translingual

Han character

磨 (radical 112 石+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 戈金一口 (ICMR) or 戈木一口 (IDMR), four-corner 00261, composition ⿸麻石)

  1. grind
  2. polish
  3. rub
  4. wear out

References

  • KangXi: page 835, character 39
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24449
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1253, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2453, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+78E8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 磨

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (麻) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
麻 *mraːl
痲 *mraːl
犘 *mraːl
縻 *mral
醿 *mral
爢 *mral
蘼 *mral, *mralʔ, *mrɯl
靡 *mralʔ
摩 *maːl, *maːls
魔 *maːl
磨 *maːl, *maːls
劘 *maːl
麽 *maːl
麼 *maːlʔ
塺 *maːls, *mɯːl
麾 *hmral

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 磨 磨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 戈 (95) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I I
Fanqie 莫婆切 摸卧切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwa/ /mwaH/
Li
Rong		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Wang
Li		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muɑ/ /muɑH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mó mò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 磨 磨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mó mò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ ma › ‹ maH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤaj/ /*mˤaj-s/
English rub, grind grinding stone

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 磨 磨
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8706 8710
Phonetic
component		 麻 麻
Rime
group		 歌 歌
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 摩
Old
Chinese		 /*maːl/ /*maːls/

Verb

磨

  1. to rub
  2. to wear out; to wear down; to erode

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji

磨

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. to polish
  2. to grind
  3. to brush (teeth)

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

磨 • ‎(ma) (hangeul 마, revised ma, McCune-Reischauer ma, Yale ma)

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Vietnamese

Han character

磨 (ma, mài)

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