抹

抹 U+62B9, 抹 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-62B9 ← 抸 [U+62B8] CJK Unified Ideographs 抺 → [U+62BA]

Translingual

Han character

抹 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手木十 (QDJ), four-corner 5509₀, composition ⿰扌末)

1. smear, apply, wipe off, erase

References

• KangXi: page 424, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11926
• Dae Jaweon: page 771, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1847, character 8
• Unihan data for U+62B9

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		抹

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (末) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
眛	*maːds, *mɯːds
沬	*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	*mreːds, *maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	*meːd, *maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːd): semantic 扌 + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǒ (mo³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maat³, mut³, mut⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mat
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): boa̍t / boah / boa̍h

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuah⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǒ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mo³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moo
    • IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maat³, mut³, mut⁶
    • Yale: maat, mut, muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maat⁸, mut⁸, mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mad³, mud³, mud⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːt̚³/, /muːt̚³/, /muːt̚²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mat
    • Hakka Romanization System: mad`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mad⁵
    • IPA: /mat̚²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍t
    • Tâi-lô: bua̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boat
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buat̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /buat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buat̚¹²¹/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boah
    • Tâi-lô: buah
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boaq
    • IPA (Xiamen): /buaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buaʔ⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /buaʔ³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /buaʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍h
    • Tâi-lô: bua̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boah
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buaʔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /buaʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buaʔ¹²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhuah⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buah
    • IPA ^(key): /buaʔ²/

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• Middle Chinese: /muɑt̚/▼

Rime
Character	抹
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫撥切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/muɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	抹
Reading #	1/1
No.	9230
Phonetic component	末
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	末
Old Chinese	/*maːd/
Notes	說文作瀎

Definitions

抹

1. to wipe
2. to smear, to apply

   抹藥 / 抹药 [Teochew]  ―  bhuah⁴ ioh⁸ [Peng'im]  ―  to apply medication

See also

• (to smear, to apply): 搽 (chá)

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Japanese

Kanji

抹

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: まつ (matsu, Jōyō); まち (machi)
• Kan’on: ばつ (batsu)
• Tōon: も (mo)
• Kun: する (suru, 抹る)

Compounds

• 抹茶 (まっちゃ) (matcha): matcha, powdered green tea

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Korean

Hanja

抹 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune-Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

抹 (mạt)

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