婺

Translingual

Han character

婺 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 弓大女 (NKV), four-corner 1840₄, composition ⿱敄女)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 265, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6461
• Dae Jaweon: page 533, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1070, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5A7A

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Chinese

trad.		婺
simp. #		婺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moɡs) : phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 女 (“woman”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: mjuH

Rime
Character	婺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	亡遇切
Baxter	mjuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/mioH/
Shao Rongfen	/mioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muə̆H/
Li Rong	/mioH/
Wang Li	/mĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*moɡs/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	婺
Reading #	1/1
No.	8852
Phonetic component	矛
Rime group	竇
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	務
Old Chinese	/*moɡs/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 婺

1. to not obey
2. Short for 婺女.
3. A river in Jiangxi
4. A prefecture in modern Zhejiang

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Japanese

Kanji

婺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぶ (bu), む (mu), ぼう (bō), ぼく (boku), もく (moku)