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Translingual

Han character

(radical 173 +11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 一月弓竹尸 (MBNHS), four-corner 10227, composition)

References


Chinese

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Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*muː, *mu
*muːʔ, *moːɡ
*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
*mruː
*mruː, *muːŋ
*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
*mruː
*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
*moːɡs
*mus
*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
*mus
*mus
*mu
*mu
*mu, *muːŋ
*mu
*mu, *moːɡ
*ml'us
*ml'us, *mlju
*mlju
*mju
*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
*mju
*mju
*mju
*mju, *mjuʔ
*mju, *mjus
*mju
*mju
*mju
*mjuʔ
*mjuʔ, *mjus
*mjuʔ, *mjus
*mjuʔ
*moʔ, *mos
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːɡ
*moɡs
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːŋ
*moɡs
*moɡs, *moːŋ
*moːŋ, *moːŋs
*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moɡs, *moːŋ) : semantic  (rain) + phonetic  (OC *moɡs).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muə̆H/
Li
Rong
/mioH/
Wang
Li
/mĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjuH ›
Old
Chinese
/*kə.m(r)[o]k-s/
English fog, mist

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 # 1/2 2/2
No. 8856 8863
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moɡs/ /*moːŋ/
Notes

Definitions

  1. fog; mist; vapor; fine spray

Compounds

  • 一頭霧水一头雾水
  • 五里霧五里雾
  • 光煙霧光烟雾
  • 冷霧冷雾
  • 南山霧豹南山雾豹
  • 吞雲吐霧吞云吐雾
  • 含煙籠霧含烟笼雾
  • 噴雲吐霧喷云吐雾
  • 噴雲噯霧喷云嗳雾
  • 噴霧喷雾 (pēnwù)
  • 噴霧器喷雾器 (pēnwùqì)
  • 噴霧機喷雾机
  • 墮雲霧中堕云雾中
  • 如坐雲霧如坐云雾
  • 如墮煙霧如堕烟雾
  • 妖霧妖雾
  • 宿霧宿雾
  • 平流霧平流雾
  • 愁雲慘霧愁云惨雾
  • 愁霧愁雾
  • 拿雲握霧拿云握雾
  • 握雲拿霧握云拿雾
  • 握霧拿雲握雾拿云
  • 擁霧翻波拥雾翻波
  • 晨霧晨雾
  • 朝霧朝雾 (zhāowù)
  • 毒霧毒雾
  • 海霧海雾
  • 濃霧浓雾 (nóngwù)
  • 煙消霧散烟消雾散
  • 煙籠霧鎖烟笼雾锁
  • 煙霏霧集烟霏雾集
  • 煙霧烟雾 (yānwù)
  • 熱霧热雾
  • 紅光紫霧红光紫雾 (hóng guāng zǐ wù)
  • 綠煙紅霧绿烟红雾
  • 興雲作霧兴云作雾
  • 興雲吐霧兴云吐雾
  • 蒙霧露蒙雾露
  • 蒼霧苍雾
  • 蓮霧莲雾 (liánwù)
  • 迷霧迷雾 (míwù)
  • 除霧器除雾器
  • 雲合霧集云合雾集
  • 雲山霧罩云山雾罩
  • 雲收霧散云收雾散
  • 雲消霧散云消雾散 (yúnxiāo-wùsàn)
  • 雲霧云雾 (yúnwù)
  • 霧化雾化
  • 霧氣雾气 (wùqì)
  • 霧沉沉雾沉沉
  • 霧淞雾淞
  • 霧社雾社
  • 霧社事件雾社事件
  • 霧縠雾縠
  • 霧茫茫雾茫茫
  • 霧裡看花雾里看花
  • 霧豹雾豹
  • 霧鎖雲埋雾锁云埋
  • 霧騰騰雾腾腾
  • 霧鬢雾鬓
  • 霧鬢風鬟雾鬓风鬟
  • 風言霧語风言雾语
  • 風鬟霧鬢风鬟雾鬓
  • 駕霧騰雲驾雾腾云
  • 騰雲駕霧腾云驾雾
  • 騰霧腾雾

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana きり, romaji kiri)

  1. mist, fog

See also

References


Korean

Hanja

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Vietnamese

Han character

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