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茅

茅

See also: 泖

Translingual

Han character

茅 (radical 140 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓戈竹 (TNIH), four-corner 44222, composition ⿱艹矛)

  1. reeds, rushes, grass
  2. used as a surname

Derived characters

  • 𡹰 𧍟 鶜 𧓿

References

  • KangXi: page 1026, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30836
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3199, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8305

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 茅

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堥 *muː, *mu
蓩 *muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱 *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅 *mruː
罞 *mruː, *muːŋ
蝥 *mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜 *mruː
瞀 *moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗 *moːɡs
袤 *mus
雺 *mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋 *mus
楙 *mus
矛 *mu
蟊 *mu
髳 *mu, *muːŋ
鍪 *mu
鞪 *mu, *moːɡ
糅 *ml'us
腬 *ml'us, *mlju
柔 *mlju
揉 *mju
蹂 *mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒 *mju
騥 *mju
蝚 *mju
葇 *mju, *mjuʔ
鞣 *mju, *mjus
鰇 *mju
瑈 *mju
鶔 *mju
楺 *mjuʔ
煣 *mjuʔ, *mjus
輮 *mjuʔ, *mjus
韖 *mjuʔ
敄 *moʔ, *mos
務 *moɡs
鶩 *moɡs, *moːɡ
騖 *moɡs
婺 *moɡs
霚 *moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍 *moɡs
霧 *moɡs, *moːŋ
霿 *moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘 *moːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 茅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫交切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠau/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚau/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mau/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨw/
Li
Rong		 /mau/
Wang
Li		 /mau/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mau/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 máo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 茅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mæw ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.mˤru/
English kind of grass; "thatch"

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 茅
Reading # 1/1
No. 8803
Phonetic
component		 矛
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 茅
Old
Chinese		 /*mruː/

Definitions

茅

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Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

茅

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

茅 (mao)

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