牡

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Han character 1.2.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Hanzi 5.1.1 Compounds

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 牛 (“‘cattle’”) + phonetic 土

[edit] Han character

牡 (radical 93 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 2451₀)

1. cow
2. male of animals
3. bolt of door

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 697, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
• Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1801, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7261

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

牡 (Yale maau5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

牡

[edit] Readings

• On: ぼ (bo), ぼう (bō)
• Kun: おす (osu)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

牡 (pinyin lào (lao4), lóu (lou2), mǔ (mu3), Wade-Giles lao⁴, lou², mu³)

[edit] Compounds

• 牡丹