模

See also: 糢

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maː): semantic 木 ‎(“tree”) + phonetic 莫 ‎(OC *maːɡ)

Han character

模 (radical 75 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木廿日大 (DTAK), four-corner 4493₄, composition ⿰木莫)

1. model, standard, pattern
2. copy

Related characters

• 募 墓 幕 慕
• 膜

References

• KangXi: page 551, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15453
• Dae Jaweon: page 939, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1261, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6A21

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		模

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mó, mú (mo², mu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˊ, ㄇㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): bô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mó
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mo²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mo
    • IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mú
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mu
    • IPA ^(key): /mu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁴
    • Yale: mòuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bô͘
    • Tâi-lô: bôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boo
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /muo/▼

Rime
Character	模
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
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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maː/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	模
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mó
Middle Chinese	‹ mu ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤa/
English	model
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	模
Reading #	1/1
No.	9241
Phonetic component	莫
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	模
Old Chinese	/*maː/

Definitions

模

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References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #11188”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

模

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: も (mo)
• Kan’on: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: かた (kata), のっとる (nottoru)

Compounds

• 模型

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Korean

Hanja

模 • ‎(mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

模 (mô, mo, mọ, mu, mua, mạc, mù)

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