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茂
茂
See also: 葴
Translingual
Han character
茂 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈竹 (TIH), four-corner 44253, composition ⿱艹戊)
References
- KangXi: page 1025, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30833
- Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3188, character 2
- Unihan data for U+8302
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
茂 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (戊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 茂 | *mus |
| 戊 | *mus |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mus) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 戊 (OC *mus).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
- Wade-Giles: mao4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
- IPA (key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mau6
- Yale: mauh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mau6
- IPA (key): /mɐu̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 茂 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /mɑu⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /mau⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /mɑu⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /mɔ²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /mɔ⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /mau³¹²/ | |
| Xi'an | /mau⁴⁴/ | |
| Xining | /mɔ²¹³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /mɔ¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /mɔ¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /mɔ²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /mau³⁵/ | |
| Chengdu |
/moŋ¹³/ /mau¹³/ |
|
| Guiyang | /moŋ²¹³/ | |
| Kunming | /mo²¹²/ | |
| Nanjing |
/məi⁴⁴/ /mo⁴⁴/ |
|
| Hefei | /mɔ⁵³/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /mau⁴⁵/ |
| Pingyao | /mu³⁵/ | |
| Hohhot | /mɔ⁵⁵/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai |
/mɤ²³/ /mɔ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /mɤ³¹/ | |
| Hangzhou | /mei¹³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /mɜ²²/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /mɔ²²/ |
| Tunxi | ||
| Xiang | Changsha | /məu⁵⁵/ |
| Xiangtan | /maɯ⁵⁵/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /mɛu²¹/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /miau⁵³/ |
| Taoyuan | /meu⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /mɐu²²/ |
| Nanning | /mɐu²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /mɐu²²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /bɔ²²/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /mɑu²⁴²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /me⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /mõu³⁵/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /mɔu³⁵/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 茂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫候切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/məuH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/məuH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/məuH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/məwH/ |
| Li Rong |
/muH/ |
| Wang Li |
/məuH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mə̯uH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mòu |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 茂 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13225 |
| Phonetic component |
戊 |
| Rime group |
幽 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
茂 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mus/ |
Definitions
茂
Japanese
Kanji
茂
Readings
- Goon: も (mo)
- Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
- Kun: 茂い (しげい, shigei), 茂し (しげし, shigeshi), 茂る (しげる, shigeru), 茂み (しげみ, shigemi), 茂む (しげむ, shigemu), 茂さぶ (しみさぶ, shimisabu), 茂に (しみに, shimi ni), 茂ら (しみら, shimira), 茂し (もし, moshi)
- Nanori: あり (ari), いかし (ikashi), し (shi), しげ (shige), しげい (shigei), しげみ (shigemi), たか (taka), とお (tō), とも (tomo), とよ (toyo), もち (mochi), もと (moto), ゆた (yuta)
Compounds
Compounds
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Proper noun
茂 (hiragana しげる, romaji Shigeru)
- A male given name
Korean
Hanja
茂 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)
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Vietnamese
Han character
- Hán Việt: mậu, ngồng
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