慕

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 莫 + semantic 㣺

Han character

慕 (radical 61 心+11, 15 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大心 (TAKP), four-corner 4433₃)

1. long for, desire
2. admire

Related characters

• 募 墓 幕
• 模 膜

References

• KangXi: page 398, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11088
• Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2340, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6155

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		慕

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): bō͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mù
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
    • IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
    • Tâi-lô: bō͘
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慕, reconstructed)
Character (慕), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 模 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫故切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muoH/	/muoH/	/moH/	/muoH/	/mɔH/	/muH/	/moH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (慕, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慕								mù								‹ muH ›								/*(C.)mˤak-s/								love; long for
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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
慕					9248					莫					暮					0					暮					/*maːɡs/

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Japanese

Kanji

慕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: したう (shitau)

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Korean

Hanja

慕 (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慕 (mộ, mồ)

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