秣

秣 U+79E3, 秣 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79E3 ← 秢 [U+79E2] CJK Unified Ideographs 秤 → [U+79E4]

Translingual

Han character

秣 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+5, 10 strokes, Cangjie input 竹木木十 (HDDJ), four-corner 2599₀, composition ⿰禾末)

1. fodder, horse feed
2. to feed a horse

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 851, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24992
• Dae Jaweon: page 1275, character 25
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2597, character 6
• Unihan data for U+79E3

Chinese

simp. and trad.		秣

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mut³ / mut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mò
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Yale: mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mut³ / mut⁶
    • Yale: mut / muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁸ / mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mud³ / mud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚³/, /muːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: mat

Rime
Character	秣
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
Baxter	mat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/muɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	秣
Reading #	1/1
No.	9225
Phonetic component	末
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	末
Old Chinese	/*maːd/

Definitions

秣

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Compounds

• 仰秣
• 六馬仰秣 / 六马仰秣
• 勵兵秣馬 / 励兵秣马
• 厲兵秣馬 / 厉兵秣马
• 礪兵秣馬 / 砺兵秣马
• 礪戈秣馬 / 砺戈秣马
• 秣陵 (Mòlíng)
• 秣馬 / 秣马
• 秣馬利兵 / 秣马利兵
• 秣馬厲兵 / 秣马厉兵
• 糧秣 / 粮秣 (liángmò)
• 芻秣 / 刍秣 (chúmò)
• 訓兵秣馬 / 训兵秣马
• 選兵秣馬 / 选兵秣马
• 飛糧輓秣 / 飞粮挽秣
• 飼秣 / 饲秣

References

• “秣”, 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–

Japanese

Kanji

秣

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. feed
2. fodder

Readings

• Go-on: まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
• Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)
• Kun: まぐさ (magusa)、まぐさかう (magusakau)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
秣
まぐさ Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
馬草

Noun

秣(まぐさ) • (magusa) 

1. grass or straw used as animal fodder

References

• “^▲秣”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

秣 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

秣: Hán Nôm readings: mạt

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