戊

See also: 戍 and 戌

戊 U+620A, 戊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-620A ← 戉 [U+6209] CJK Unified Ideographs 戋 → [U+620B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

戊 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹 (IH), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿰丿戈)

Derived characters

• 㧔, 䛋, 龯(𨱆), 戌, 成, 戚, 茂

Additional Derived Characters

• 𡶙, 𢏌, 𣳡, 𭸀, 𣆈, 𭩤, 𣬽, 𤇦, 𭷂, 𭸿, 𮁥, 𪾤, 𥍥, 𬗇, 𮊥, 𧉦, 𡏜, 𮨹, 𬵇, 𪌙, 𪉠, 𪗥
• 𩒃, 𫨵, 𢧓, 𡶔, 𫁸, 𩂟, 𫈼, 𩬕
• 𬏡, 𢦓, 成, 𢦡, 𢘱, 𢦲, 𢦩, 𤬹, 𫀄, 𢦽, 𭑿, 𮍏, 𢧒, 𤋆, 𢧦

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 411, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11532
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1397, character 4
• Unihan data for U+620A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		戊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
茂	*mus
戊	*mus

Pictogram (象形) : A halberd.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): wu⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): vu

  (Hailu, HRS): vu^˖

• Eastern Min (BUC): muô
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bou⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bō͘ / mō͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhou⁷

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶wu

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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/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: wu⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu
    • Hakka Romanization System: vu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /vu⁵⁵/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: vu^˖
    • Sinological IPA: /vu³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: muô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muɔ²⁴²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bou⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bō
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔu¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɔu²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Changtai, Kaohsiung, Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
    • Tâi-lô: bōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bo
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Changtai): /beu²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung, Taipei): /bɔ³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mō͘
    • Tâi-lô: mōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mo
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /mɔ̃²²/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /mɔ̃⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bou¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶wu
    • MiniDict: wu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³hhu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦu²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 戊
Mandarin	Beijing	/u⁵¹/
	Harbin	/u⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/u⁵³/
	Jinan	/u⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/vu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/u⁵³/
	Xi'an	/vu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/v̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/vu⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/vu¹³/
	Ürümqi
	Wuhan	/u³⁵/
	Chengdu	/u¹³/
	Guiyang	/u²¹³/
	Kunming	/u²¹²/
	Nanjing	/u⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/u⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/vu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦu²³/
	Suzhou	/vu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/møy²²/
Hui	Shexian	/u²²/
	Tunxi	/u¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/u⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/u⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/u²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/vu⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/vu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mou²²/
	Nanning	/mu²²/
	Hong Kong	/mou²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/bɔ²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/muɔ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/mu⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/bou³¹/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/vu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: muwH

Rime
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫候切
Baxter	muwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/
Li Rong	/muH/
Wang Li	/məuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)uʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù
Middle Chinese	‹ muwH ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)uʔ-s/ (~ *m(r)uʔ)
English	5th heavenly stem
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	戊
Reading #	1/1
No.	13226
Phonetic component	戊
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/
Notes	朱芳圃雲劉之初文

Definitions

戊

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

Coordinate terms

Chinese heavenly stems: 天干 (tiāngān)edit

• 甲 (jiǎ)
• 乙 (yǐ)
• 丙 (bǐng)
• 丁 (dīng)
• 戊 (wù)
• 己 (jǐ)
• 庚 (gēng)
• 辛 (xīn)
• 壬 (rén)
• 癸 (guǐ)

Compounds

• 戊戌政變 / 戊戌政变
• 戊戌變法 / 戊戌变法 (Wùxū Biànfǎ)
• 異戊橡膠 / 异戊橡胶

Descendants

• → Zhuang: fouh

References

• (Yue) “戊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Hokkien)
  • “戊”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
  • 周长楫 [Zhōu, Chángjí], editor (2006), “戊”, in 闽南方言大词典 MINNAN FANGYAN DA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Southern Min dialects] (overall work in Hokkien and Mandarin), Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社 [Fujian People's Publishing House], →ISBN, page 1228.

Japanese

Kanji

戊

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: つちのえ (tsuchinoe, 戊)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
戊
ぼ Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

From Middle Chinese 戊 (muw^H).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぼ [bóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [bo̞]

Proper noun

戊(ぼ) • (Bo) 

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
戊
つちのえ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

土 (Tsuchi, “Earth”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) つちのえ [tsùchínóꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥t͡ɕino̞e̞]

Proper noun

戊(つちのえ) • (Tsuchinoe) 

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

References

• “^▲戊”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

戊 (eumhun 다섯째 천간 무 (daseotjjae cheon'gan mu))

1. hanja form^? of 무 (“fifth heavenly stem”)

Vietnamese

Han character

戊: Hán Nôm readings: mậu, mồ

1. chữ Hán form of Mậu (“fifth of the ten heavenly stems”)

   Hypernyms: 天干, 十干

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Compounds

• 戊午 (Mậu Ngọ)
• 戊子 (Mậu Tý)
• 戊寅 (Mậu Dần)
• 戊戌 (Mậu Tuất)
• 戊申 (Mậu Thân)
• 戊辰 (Mậu Thìn)