牟

Translingual

Han character

牟 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹手 (IHQ), four-corner 2350₀, composition ⿱厶牛)

Derived characters

• 侔, 哞, 㛌, 恈, 洠, 䏬, 桙, 毪, 眸, 蛑, 鉾(𫓴), 𩶢, 麰(𮮇), 劺, 𬼪, 𭷢, 𭷪, 𭷬, 𭷲, 鴾, 𡧷, 𦭷, 𥭏, 𨴍

Descendants

• ム (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19928
• Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1800, character 7
• Unihan data for U+725F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		牟
alternative forms		𠫚 ⿱厶干 𢃷

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 牟
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
牟	*mu
眸	*mu
侔	*mu
蛑	*mu
麰	*mu
劺	*mu
恈	*mu
鴾	*mu

Ideogram (指事) : An ox (牛) with a symbol (now 厶) to represent its lowing.

Etymology

“moo”

Onomatopoeic.

“to seek; to obtain”

By extension of 蛑 (OC *mu, “a type of pest that eats sprouts and roots”).

“to love”

Cognate with 慕 (OC *maːɡs, “to admire”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“look; appearance”

Variant of 模 (MC mu).

“spear”

Variant of 矛 (MC mjuw).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 牟

1. (onomatopoeic) the sound of cattle: moo

   alt. forms: 哞 (mōu)

2. to seek; to obtain
3. ^† to exceed; to increase
4. ^† broad; great
5. ^† longlasting
6. (Han dynasty, Sòng-Lǔ dialect) to love
7. ^† look; appearance
8. ^† spear
9. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 麰／𮮇 (móu, “barley”).
10. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 眸 (móu, “eyeball”).
11. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 堥 (máo, “earthen pot”).
12. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 侔 (móu, “to be equal”).
13. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 鍪 (móu, “helmet”).
14. (～國) (historical) Mou (an ancient state in modern-day Shandong, China)
15. a surname

Pronunciation 2

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): mou⁵ / mong⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mù
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mù
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴
    • Yale: mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
    • Palladius: му (mu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: muk⁶
    • Yale: muhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mou⁵ / mong⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: môu / mông
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou⁵⁵/, /moŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 牟

1. Used in place names.

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02487
• “牟”, 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–
• (Min Nan) “Entry #41051”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

牟

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. pupil (hole in middle of an iris)
2. moo (lowing sound of a cow)

Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)

Compounds

• 大(おお)牟田(むた) (Ōmuta)
• 大(おお)穴(あな)牟(む)遅(ちの)神(かみ) (Ōanamuchi no Kami)
• 牟婁(むろ) (Muro)
• 牟尼(むに) (muni)
• 牟牟(ぼうぼう) (bōbō)
• 牟礼(むれ) (Mure)
• 莫(まく)牟(も) (makumo)

 

Usage notes

• Used in Old Japanese as a 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨mu⟩.

References

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 224330

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Korean

Hanja

牟 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 牟 (màu, mâu, mầu, mào, mưu)

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References

• Nom Foundation