戊

See also: 戍

Translingual

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) : A halberd

Han character

戊 (radical 62 戈+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹 (IH), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿰丿戈)

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

Derived characters

• 戌, 咸, 成, 茂, 戚

References

• KangXi: page 411, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11532
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1397, character 4
• Unihan data for U+620A

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		戊

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

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

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
• 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 (戊, reconstructed)
Character (戊), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 侯 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫候切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/məuH/	/mə̯uH/	/muH/	/məuH/	/məwH/	/məuH/	/məuH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (戊, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
戊								wù								‹ muwH ›								/*m(r)uʔ-s (~ *m(r)uʔ)/								5th heavenly stem
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
戊					13226					戊					幽					1					茂					/*mus/					朱芳圃雲劉之初文

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

戊

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: ぼ (bo), ぼう (bō)
• Kun: つちのえ (tsuchinoe)

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Korean

Hanja

戊 (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戊 (mậu, mồ)

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