墨

Translingual

Etymology

黑 is combined of chimney and flame, the look of sooty edge of chimney. 墨 is a lump of soil-formed soot. The old sound is / mək /, the m changed into voiceless nasal, moreover changed into / hək /, that is the sound of 黑

Han character

墨 (radical 32 土+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 田土火土 (WGFG), four-corner 6010₄)

1. ink
2. writing
3. Mexico (abbreviation of 墨西哥)

References

• KangXi: page 238, character 40
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5469
• Dae Jaweon: page 478, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 487, character 3
• Unihan data for U+58A8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

墨 (Yale mak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

墨 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぼく (boku), もく (moku)
• Kun: すみ (sumi)

Compounds

• 墨客
• 墨汁
• 墨絵

Noun

墨 (hiragana すみ, romaji sumi)

1. ink

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Korean

Hanja

墨 (hangeul 묵, revised muk, McCune-Reischauer muk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

墨 (pinyin dūn (dun1), mò (mo4), Wade-Giles tun¹, mo⁴)

Compounds

• 墨宝
• 墨笔, 墨筆
• 墨斗
• 墨斗鱼
• 墨黑
• 墨镜
• 墨绿
• 墨綠色
• 墨囊
• 墨水
• 墨西哥
• 墨鱼, 墨魚
• 墨汁, 墨汁儿

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Vietnamese

Han character

墨 (mặc, mức, mực)