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Translingual [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (grass) + phonetic 

Han character [edit]

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

  1. thick, lush, dense
  2. talented

References [edit]

  • 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

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale mau6)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. overgrown; luxuriant, thickly growing, lush

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Proper noun [edit]

(hiragana しげる, romaji Shigeru)

  1. A male given name

Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

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


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

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


Middle Chinese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(*mòu)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

(mậu, ngồng)