某

See also: 柑

Translingual

Han character

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

1. certain thing or person

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

某 (Jyutping mau5, Yale mau5)

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Japanese

Kanji

某

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. a certain person; a certain object

Readings

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

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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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

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Compounds

• 某某 (so-and-so, such-and-such)

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Vietnamese

Han character

某 (mỗ, mấy, mồi, mới, với)

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