幕

Translingual

Han character

幕 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大月 (TAKB), four-corner 4422₇, composition ⿱莫巾)

Related characters

• 募 墓 慕
• 模 膜

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 335, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9051
• Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 749, character 7
• Unihan data for U+5E55

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Chinese

trad.		幕
simp. #		幕
alternative forms		幙 𫯜 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幕
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 *maːɡ) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 巾 (“cloth”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 幕

1. curtain; screen; tent

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

幕

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. curtain
2. act

Readings

• Go-on: まく (maku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
• Kun: おおう (ōu, 幕う); とばり (tobari, 幕)

Noun

幕(まく) • (maku) 

1. curtain
2. act (division of theatrical performance)

Compounds

• 煙(えん)幕(まく) (enmaku): smokescreen
• 幕(ばく)営(えい) (bakuei): macitona
• 幕(まく)下(した) (makushita)
• 幕(ばく)議(ぎ) (bakugi): a conference
• 幕(ばく)臣(しん) (bakushin): a shogun's retainer
• 幕(ばく)府(ふ) (bakufu): shogunate
• 幕(ばく)僚(りょう) (bakuryō): staff
• 幕(まく)間(あい) (makuai): aired
• 幕(まく)内(うち) (makūchi): sumo

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Korean

Hanja

幕 • (mak) (hangeul 막, revised mak, McCune–Reischauer mak, Yale mak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 幕 (mạc)

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