茂

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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

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艸 (“‘grass’”) + phonetic 戊

[edit] Han character

茂 (radical 140 艸+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈竹 (TIH), four-corner 4425₃)

1. thick, lush, dense
2. talented

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 1025, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30833
• Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3188, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8302

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

茂 (Yale mau6)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

茂 (common kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: も (mo), ぼう (bō)
• Kun: しげる (shigeru)

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

茂 (pinyin jiā (jia1), mào (mao4), Wade-Giles chia¹, mao⁴)