莫

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Translingual[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Pictogram (象形): the sun (日) sinking into the horizon (艹 + 大).

Both the top and bottom were originally 艹 "grass" — the bottom was later distorted into 大. The original meaning was "dusk," later borrowed for an abstract word. The character 暮 uses the original meaning.

Han character[edit]

莫 (radical 140 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大 (TAK), four-corner 44430, composition ⿱艹旲)

  1. not, do not, is not, cannot, unable to
  2. negative
  3. A surname​.

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1035, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31078
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 13
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3217, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+83AB

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 莫

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 莫
Mandarin Beijing /mo⁵¹/
Harbin /mɤ⁵³/
Tianjin /mo⁵³/
Jinan /mə²¹/
Qingdao /mə⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mo²⁴/
Xi'an /mo²¹/
Xining /mɔ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /muə¹³/
Lanzhou /mə¹³/
Ürümqi /mɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /mo²¹³/
Chengdu /mo³¹/
Guiyang /mo²¹/
Kunming /mo³¹/
Nanjing /moʔ⁵/
Hefei /mɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /maʔ²/
Pingyao /mʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /maʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /moʔ¹/
Suzhou /noʔ³/
Hangzhou /moʔ²/
Wenzhou /mo²¹³/
Hui Shexian /mɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mo²⁴/
Xiangtan /mo²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /mɔʔ²/
/mɵʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /mok̚⁵/
Taoyuan /mok̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɔk̚²/
Nanning /mɔk̚²²/
Hong Kong /mɔk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bɔk̚⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /moʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mz̩²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /mok̚⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vo³³/ 不要
/mo³³/ 姓
Rime
Character 莫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 慕各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mak̚/
Li
Rong		 /mɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /mɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莫 莫
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mò mò
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mak › ‹ mak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤak/ /*mˤak/
English there is no X such that X deliberate (v.) (loan)

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 莫
Reading # 1/1
No. 9252
Phonetic
component		 莫
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 莫
Old
Chinese		 /*maːɡ/
Notes 從日在茻中，暮初文，小徐茻亦聲

Definitions[edit]

莫

  1. (Min Nan) (imperative) do not; don't

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Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
莫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

莫 • ‎(mak, mo) (hangeul 막, 모, revised mak, mo, McCune-Reischauer mak, mo, Yale mak, mo)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

莫 (mạc)

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