芼

Translingual

Han character

芼 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹手山 (THQU), four-corner 4471₄, composition ⿱艹毛)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1021, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30745
• Dae Jaweon: page 1480, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3181, character 2
• Unihan data for U+82BC

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Chinese

trad.		芼
simp. #		芼

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
毛	*maːw, *maːws
髦	*maːw
旄	*maːw, *maːws
芼	*maːw, *maːws
氂	*rɯ, *maːw
枆	*maːw
酕	*maːw
牦	*maːw
耄	*maːws
覒	*maːws
眊	*maːws, *mraːwɢ
耗	*hmaːws
秏	*hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
毣	*mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːw, *maːws) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 毛 (OC *maːw, *maːws)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁴, mou⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mào
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴
    • Yale: màu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • Palladius: мао (mao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mou⁴, mou⁶
    • Yale: mòuh, mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁴, mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁴, mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²¹ mou̯²²/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 芼

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   參差荇菜、左右芼之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]

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   参差荇菜、左右芼之。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

   Cēncī xìngcài, zuǒ yòu mào zhī. [Pinyin]

   Here long, there short, is the duckweed; On the left, on the right, we cook and present it.

2. to choose
3. to select
4. greens

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Japanese

Kanji

芼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō), もう (mō)
• Kun: はびこる (habikoru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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