嫫

Translingual

Han character

嫫 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女廿日大 (VTAK), four-corner 4443₄, composition ⿰女莫)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 270, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6673
• Dae Jaweon: page 538, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1071, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5AEB

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Chinese

trad.		嫫
simp. #		嫫

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 嫫
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
蟆	*mraː
鬕	*mraːɡs
饃	*maːl
模	*maː
摸	*maː, *maːɡ
嫫	*maː
謨	*maː
膜	*maː, *maːɡ
摹	*maː
暮	*maːɡs
慕	*maːɡs
募	*maːɡs
墓	*maːɡs
慔	*maːɡs
莫	*maːɡ
寞	*maːɡ
漠	*maːɡ
幕	*maːɡ
鏌	*maːɡ
瘼	*maːɡ
鄚	*maːɡ
瞙	*maːɡ
嗼	*maːɡ, *mraːɡ
塻	*maːɡ
貘	*mraːɡ
驀	*mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maː) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mó (mo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mó
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mó
    • Wade–Giles: mo²
    • Yale: mwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mo
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mu

Rime
Character	嫫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫胡切
Baxter	mu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muo/
Pan Wuyun	/muo/
Shao Rongfen	/mo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɔ/
Li Rong	/mo/
Wang Li	/mu/
Bernard Karlgren	/muo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mou4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫫
Reading #	1/1
No.	9243
Phonetic component	莫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	模
Old Chinese	/*maː/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 嫫

1. Momu (Huangdi's ugly concubine (used in the word 嫫母))
2. nurse
3. calm

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Japanese

Kanji

嫫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼ (bo); も (mo)
• Kun: しこめ (shikome)

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Korean

Hanja

嫫 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo)

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