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U+5301, 匁
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5301

[U+5300]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5302]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 20, +2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 心大 (PK) or 難心大 (XPK), composition )

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 150, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2502
  • Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 256, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+5301

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin[edit]

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese (もんめ) (monme)

Etymology[edit]

Pronunciation borrowed from (liǎng).

Pronunciation[edit]


Definitions[edit]

  1. momme (unit of weight (3.75 grams) used for pearls, paper, and silk)

Japanese[edit]

Glyph origin[edit]

A 国字 (kokuji, Japanese-coined character). ideogrammic compound (會意会意): + , a ligature of (mon) and (me), used to phonetically spell out the word. The unit of distance could also be written as (もん)() (monme), and in this character the is rendered in katakana and fused with .

漢典 (zdic.net) posits the origin as a regular script form of (りょう) (ryō), but this is dubious because the value of the was between 4 and 10 momme, and is now either 50g (mainland China) or 37.5g (Taiwan), and of similar value in Hong Kong; i.e., the units are essentially not equivalent.

Kanji[edit]

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. Japanese unit of weight (11000 of a kan)

Readings[edit]

  • Kun: もんめ (monme, ); (me, )

Compounds[edit]

Usage notes[edit]

Removed from the daily use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government in 2010.[1]

Noun[edit]

(もんめ) (monme

  1. momme; unit of mass equal to 3.75 grams (one thousandth of a (かん) (kan))
  2. (archaic, Edo) Synonym of 銀目 (ginme), a coin worth 160 of the 小判 (koban) (160 (ryō))
  3. A counter used for coins.

Usage notes[edit]

Now used especially for weighing pearls.

Descendants[edit]

  • English: momme
  • Russian: мо́мме (mómmɛ)

References[edit]

  1. ^ The Japan Times (October 21, 2009), “Get set for next year's overhaul of joyo kanji”, in www.kanjiclinic.com[1], archived from the original on 2021-11-20

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(mun) (hangeul , revised mun, McCune–Reischauer mun)

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