幕

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 莫 + semantic 巾 (“cloth”)

Han character

幕 (radical 50 巾+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大月 (TAKB), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱莫巾)

1. curtain, screen, tent

Related characters

• 募 墓 慕
• 模 膜

References

• KangXi: page 335, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9051
• Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 749, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5E55

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Cantonese

Hanzi

幕 (jyutping mok6, Yale mok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

幕 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: まく (maku), ばく (baku)
• Kun: おおう (oou)

Noun

幕 (まく, maku)

1. curtain
2. act

Compounds

• 煙幕 (えんまく, enmaku): smokescreen
• 幕営: macitona
• 幕燕:
• 幕下 (nakanokuni)
• 幕議: a conference
• 幕臣: a shogun's retainer
• 幕府 (bakufu): shogunate
• 幕僚: staff
• 幕間: aired
• 幕内: sumo

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Korean

Hanja

幕 (hangeul 막, revised mak, McCune-Reischauer mak, Yale mak)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

幕 (pinyin mù (mu4), Wade-Giles mu⁴)

Compounds

• 幕布
• 幕府
• 幕后
• 幕客
• 幕僚
• 幕天席地

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Vietnamese

Han character

幕 (mạc)