茂

See also 葴

Translingual

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. thick, lush, dense
2. talented

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

茂 (Yale mau6)

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Japanese

Kanji

茂 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. overgrown; luxuriant, thickly growing, lush

Readings

• Go'on: も (mo)
• Kan'on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: 茂い (しげい, shigei), 茂し (しげし, shigeshi), 茂る (しげる, shigeru), 茂み (しげみ, shigemi), 茂む (しげむ, shigemu), 茂さぶ (しみさぶ, shimisabu), 茂に (しみに, shimi ni), 茂ら (しみら, shimira), 茂し (もし, moshi)
• Nanori: あり (ari), いかし (ikashi), し (shi), しげ (shige), しげい (shigei), しげみ (shigemi), たか (taka), とお (tō), とも (tomo), とよ (toyo), もち (mochi), もと (moto), ゆた (yuta)

Compounds

Compounds

茂り合う (しげりあう, shigeriau): to grow thickly together; to be copious in amount 茂枝 (しげりえ, shigerie): a thickly grown branch, thickly growing branches 茂り立つ (しげりたつ, shigeritatsu): to grow thick and lush (as vegetation) 茂葉 (しげりば, shigeriba): lushly growing leaves 茂立つ (しみたつ, shimitatsu): to grow thick and lush (as vegetation) 茂原 (もばら, Mobara): a place in central Chiba Prefecture 茂才 (もさい, mosai): a genius, a whiz, a brilliant person 茂山 (もさん, Mosan; むさん, Musan): Musan, North Korea 茂林寺 (もりんじ, Morinji): a temple in Gunma Prefecture 茂生 (もせい, mosei): thick and lush growth

Proper noun

茂 (hiragana しげる, romaji Shigeru)

1. A male given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

茂 (*mòu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茂 (mậu, ngồng)