矛

See also: 予

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

矛 (Kangxi radical 110, 矛+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈弓竹 (NINH), four-corner 1722₂, composition ⿹予丿)

1. Kangxi radical #110, ⽭.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/矛
• 柕 敄 務 茅 罞 雺 髳 柔 袤 裦 霿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 821, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23846
• Dae Jaweon: page 1233, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2764, character 1
• Unihan data for U+77DB

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		矛

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 矛

1. spear; lance

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

矛

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: む (mu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: ほこ (hoko, 矛, Jōyō)

Alternative forms

Kanji in this term
矛
ほこ Grade: S
kun'yomi

• 鉾, 鋒, 戈, 戟

Noun

矛(ほこ) • (hoko) 

1. a Chinese spear; a lance; a halberd

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Korean

Hanja

矛 • (mo) (hangeul 모, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

1. spear
2. lance
3. KangXi radical #110

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 矛 (mâu, mấu)

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