莫

Translingual

Etymology

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

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

1. do not, is not, cannot
2. negative

Derived characters

• 募 墓 幕 暮 慕
• 模 膜

See also

• 漢

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

莫 (Yale mok6)

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Japanese

Kanji

莫

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ぼ (bo), ばく (baku), まく (maku)
• Kun: くれ (kure), ない (nai), なかれ (nakare)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

莫 (Pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo⁴)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

莫

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mai˨˩]

Verb

莫 (traditional and simplified, POJ mài (mai³))

1. (imperative) do not; don't

Alternative forms

• 勿

See also

• (Mandarin) 不要 (bùyào), trad. 別, simpl. 别 (bié)

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Vietnamese

Han character

莫 (mạc)