莫
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[edit] Translingual
[edit] Etymology
Pictogram (象形): the sun (日) sinking into the horizon (艹 + 大).
Both the top and bottom were originally 艹 "grass" -- the bottom was later distorted into 大. The original meaning was "dusk," later borrowed for an abstract word. The character 暮 refers to the original meaning.
[edit] Han character
莫 (radical 140 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大 (TAK), four-corner 44430, composition ⿱艹旲)
- do not, is not, cannot
- negative
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 1035, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31078
- Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3217, character 15
- Unihan data for U+83AB
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
莫 (Yale mok6)
[edit] Hmong
[edit] Hanzi
莫
- Mua, Moua, Muas Family surname
[edit] Japanese
[edit] Kanji
莫
[edit] Readings
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
莫 (hangeul 막, 모, revised mak, mo, McCune-Reischauer mak, mo, Yale mak, mo)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
莫 (pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo4)
[edit] Min Nan
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [mai˨˩]
[edit] Verb
莫 (traditional and simplified, POJ mài)
- (imperative) do not; don't
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[edit] See also
[edit] Vietnamese
[edit] Han character
莫 (mạc)
