某

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.2 Etymology 3.3 Pronoun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

某 (radical 75 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一木 (TMD), four-corner 4490₄)

1. certain thing or person

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 519, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14618
• Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1177, character 4
• Unihan data for U+67D0

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

某 (Yale mau5)

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[edit] Japanese

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某 (common kanji)

1. a certain person; a certain object

[edit] Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), ばい (bai)
• Kun: それがし (soregashi)

[edit] Etymology

Romanizations: Hepburn: soregashi, Nihon-siki and Kunrei-siki: soregasi, Other: sorẽgaxi (obsolete)

[edit] Pronoun

某 (hiragana それがし, romaji soregashi)

1. (obsolete) Someone; somebody; a certain person.
2. (obsolete) I; me. (Used by samurai.)
   • 1632: Diego Collado, Niffon no Cotõbani Yô Confesion, p. 4

     R. Sorẽgaxĩga cotòxi Deus no vòn jifino vie iòri Chriſtian ni nàri maràxitẽ gozàru iùie, ni, mãda confeſion vo mõsaĩdẽ gozàru.

     R. Ego ex Dei miſericordia hoc anno Chriſtianus factus, nunquam confeſſionem Sacramentalem feci: vnde hæc, quam modo incipio, erit prima.

     (Having become Christian out of the mercy of God this year, I have never made sacramental confession; whence, as I am just beginning, it will be the first.)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

某 (hangeul 모, 매, revised mo, mae, McCune-Reischauer mo, mae, Yale mo, may)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

某 (pinyin mǒu (mou3), qián (qian2), Wade-Giles mou³, ch'ien²)