匁

See also: 匆

匁 U+5301, 匁 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5301 ← 匀 [U+5300] CJK Unified Ideographs 匂 → [U+5302]

Translingual

Han character

匁 (Kangxi radical 20, 勹+2, 4 strokes, Cangjie input 心大 (PK) or 難心大 (XPK), composition ⿻勹乂)

Derived characters

• 𢪤, 𥐷, 𥸼, 𮈅, 𠇢, 𢜓

See also

• 𪠴, 𢪣, 𣲢, 𣏯, 𩛀, 𫇬, 𭥘, 𱯗, 𦁯, 𮩊, 𦿯

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 150, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2502
• Dae Jaweon: page 339, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 256, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5301

Chinese

simp. and trad.		匁

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 匁(もんめ) (monme)

Etymology

Pronunciation borrowed from 兩／两 (liǎng).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liǎng (liang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄤˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liǎng
    • Wade–Giles: liang³
    • Yale: lyǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leang
    • Palladius: лян (ljan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑŋ²¹⁴/

Definitions

匁

1. momme (unit of weight (3.75 grams) used for pearls, paper, and silk)

Japanese

Glyph origin

A 国字 (kokuji, “Japanese-coined character”). Variant form of 錢 through an intermediate form 𬌩 obtained by simplifying the right-hand side.

Folk etymology considers it to be a ligature of 文(もん) (mon) and メ (me), as the unit of distance could also be written as 文(もん)目(め) (monme).

漢典 (zdic.net) posits the origin as a regular script form of 兩(りょう) (ryō), but this is dubious because the value of the 兩 was between 4 and 10 momme, and is now either 50g (mainland China) or 37.5g (Taiwan), and of similar value in Hong Kong; i.e., the units are essentially not equivalent.

Kanji

匁

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. Japanese unit of weight (¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a kan)

Readings

• Kun: もんめ (monme, 匁)、め (me, 匁)

Usage notes

Removed from the daily use Jōyō kanji by the Japanese government in 2010.

Etymology

Kanji in this term
匁
もんめ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
文目

Noun

匁(もんめ) • (monme) 

1. momme; unit of mass equal to 3.75 grams (one thousandth of a 貫(かん) (kan), ten 分(ぶん) (bun))
2. (Edo) a silver coin weighing one momme, worth ¹⁄₆₀ of the 小判 (koban) (¹⁄₆₀ 両 (ryō))

Usage notes

Now used especially for weighing pearls.

Derived terms

• 一(いち)匁(もんめ) (ichimonme): 1 momme
• 百(ひゃく)匁(もんめ) (hyakumonme): 100 momme, 375 grams

Descendants

• → English: momme
• → Russian: мо́мме (mómmɛ)

Korean

Glyph origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 匁(もんめ) (monme).

Hanja

匁 • (transliteration needed)

1. (used during the Japanese colonial period) monme