卯

See also: 卵, 卬, and 戼

Translingual

Etymology

A door (門) opened to spring. Cognate to 丣, from whence also top of 留.

Han character

卯 (radical 26 卩+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹竹尸中 (HHSL), four-corner 7772₀, composition ⿰𠂎卩)

1. lush
2. fourth of twelve earthly branches (十二支): rabbit (兔) of Chinese zodiac
3. period from 5-7 a.m. (prime, early morning).

Derived characters

• 柳 留

Related characters

• 丣

References

• KangXi: page 159, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2847
• Dae Jaweon: page 363, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 311, character 5
• Unihan data for U+536F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		卯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎo (mao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): báu / mauh

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mao
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maau⁵
    • Yale: máauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːu̯¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: báu / mauh
    • Tâi-lô: báu / mauh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bao, mauq
    • IPA (Taipei): /baʊ⁵³/, /maʊʔ³²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /baʊ⁵³/, /maʊʔ³²/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠau^X/▼

Rime
Character	卯
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫飽切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠauX/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚauX/
Shao Rongfen	/mauX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨwX/
Li Rong	/mauX/
Wang Li	/mauX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mauX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǎo

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤruʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mruːʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	卯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ mæwX ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤruʔ/
English	4th earthly branch
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	卯
Reading #	1/1
No.	8871
Phonetic component	卯
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	卯
Old Chinese	/*mruːʔ/

Definitions

卯

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References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #1403”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

卯

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• On: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: う (u)

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Korean

Hanja

卯 • ‎(myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

卯 (mão, mẫu, méo, Mẹo, mẻo)

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