畝

See also: 亩

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 畞 (original character)
• 亩 (Simplified Chinese)
• 畒, 畆, 畮 (variants)

Etymology

The original character is 畞. 田 + 十 (measure ten paces) + 久 (huncing walk)

Han character

畝 (radical 102 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜田弓人 (YWNO), four-corner 0768₀, composition ⿰亩久)

1. Chinese land measure, mu. Eg, In Zhou (周) period, 100 步 = 1.8 are. and 1 acre equaling approximately 6.07 mu
2. fields
3. ridge, furrow

References

• KangXi: page 761, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21815
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2538, character 3
• Unihan data for U+755D

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Chinese

trad.		畝
simp.		亩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǔ (mu³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): méu
• Min Nan (POJ): bó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mu³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muu
    • IPA ^(key): /mu²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mau⁵
    • Yale: máuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: méu
    • Hakka Romanization System: meu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: meu³
    • IPA: /me̯u³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘
    • Tâi-lô: bóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bor
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ⁵³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 畝
Mandarin	Beijing	/mu²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/mu²¹³/
	Tianjin	/mu¹³/
	Jinan	/mu⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/mu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/mu⁵³/
	Xi'an	/mu⁵³/
	Xining	/mv̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/mu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/mu⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/mu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/məu⁴²/
	Chengdu	/moŋ⁵³/
	Guiyang	/moŋ⁴²/
	Kunming	/mu⁵³/
	Nanjing	/mu²¹²/
	Hefei	/mʊ²⁴/ /məŋ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/mu⁵³/
	Pingyao	/mu⁵³/
	Hohhot	/mu⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/mɤ²³/ /m̩²³/
	Suzhou	/mɤ³¹/ /m³¹/
	Hangzhou	/mu⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/mɜ³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/mɔ³⁵/ /m̩³⁵/
	Tunxi	/mo³¹/ /miu³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/məu⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/məɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/mɛu²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/meu⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/meu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɐu²³/
	Nanning	/mɐu²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/mɐu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/bɔ⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/mu³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/me²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/bou⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/mɔu²¹³/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*məʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	畝
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ muwX ›
Old Chinese	/*məʔ/ (< *mˤoʔ ?)
English	Chinese acre
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	畝
Reading #	1/1
No.	9322
Phonetic component	畝
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	母
Old Chinese	/*mɯʔ/
Notes	畞隸變通用，廣韻右久原作又

Definitions

畝

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References

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

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Japanese

畝

Kanji

畝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: む (mu), も (mo)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan’yōon: ほ (ho)
• Kun: せ (se), うね (une)

Noun

畝 ‎(hiragana うね, romaji une)

1. a raised ridge of earth in a field

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Korean

Hanja

畝 • ‎(mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune-Reischauer mu, Yale mu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

畝 (mẫu, mẩu)

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