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See also:
U+8C8C, 貌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C8C

[U+8C8B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C8D]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 153, +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 26210, composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3913, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8C8C

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp.
alternative forms ancient

Glyph origin[edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mreːwɢs) : phonetic (OC *preːwɢs) + semantic (looks).

Originally written as (OC *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ), which is a pictogram (象形) of the face.

Pronunciation[edit]



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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 /mau¹³/
Guiyang /mao²¹³/
Kunming /mɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /mɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /mɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /mau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /mɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /mɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /mɔ²³/
Suzhou /mæ³¹/
Hangzhou /mɔ¹³/
Wenzhou /muɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /maɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /mɑu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /mau⁵³/
Taoyuan /mɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mau²²/
Nanning /mau²²/
Hong Kong /mau²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /mau²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mau⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /mãu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter maewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/maɨwH/
Li
Rong
/mauH/
Wang
Li
/mauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
maau6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mào
Middle
Chinese
‹ maewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁrawk-s/
English appearance, manner

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 # 1/1
No. 8932
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mreːwɢs/
Notes

Definitions[edit]

  1. facial appearance; facial features; looks
  2. outward appearance
  3. expression; countenance
  4. (Classical) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of
    ,…… [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    ,…… [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 1037, 《集韻》 (Jiyun)
    Shú,...... Guāng dòng mào. [Pinyin]
    Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.
  5. superficial; outer

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. facial appearance

Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Chinese (MC maewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 모〯 (mwǒ) (Yale: mwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja[edit]

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 모양 (moyang mo))

  1. Hanja form? of (appearance).

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: mạo

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