莫
Translingual
Han character
莫 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿日大 (TAK), four-corner 44430, composition ⿱艹旲 or ⿱䒤大)
Derived characters
- 嗼, 塻, 嫫, 𡻟, 幙, 慔, 摸, 漠, 獏, 暯, 膜, 模, 氁, 㷬, 𭷱, 𬎇, 𮂓, 瞙, 糢, 𮖪, 縸(𫄲), 蟆, 謨(谟), 貘, 𧷸, 𨢢, 鏌(镆), 𩌧, 饃(馍), 䮬, 𩻁, 𪍤(𬹍), 𠢓, 鄚, 𮍅, 𪅐
- 寞, 𢊗, 瘼, 𩄻, 鬕, 募, 𠻚, 墓, 𡖶, 𡠜, 幕, 摹, 暮, 㱳, 慕, 𬑤, 蟇, 謩, 驀(蓦), 𡈗
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1035, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31078
- Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3217, character 15
- Unihan data for U+83AB
Chinese
Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 莫 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Pictogram (象形) – the sun (日) sinking into the bushes (屮); dusk. Original form of 暮 (OC *maːɡs, “dusk”).
The bottom was later distorted into 大.
Etymology 1
trad. | 莫 | |
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simp. # | 莫 |
From 無 (OC *ma, “there is no”) + distributive suffix *-k (Schuessler, 2007).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mo2
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mok6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mo̍k
- Northern Min (KCR): mŏ̤
- Eastern Min (BUC): mŏ̤h / mŏk
- Southern Min
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 5moq
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mò
- Wade–Giles: mo4
- Yale: mwò
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
- Palladius: мо (mo)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: mo2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mo
- Sinological IPA (key): /mo²¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mok6
- Yale: mohk
- Cantonese Pinyin: mok9
- Guangdong Romanization: mog6
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔːk̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mo̍k
- Hakka Romanization System: mog
- Hagfa Pinyim: mog6
- Sinological IPA: /mok̚⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
- Kienning Colloquial Romanized: mŏ̤
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɔ²⁴/
- (Jian'ou)
- Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: mŏ̤h / mŏk
- Sinological IPA (key): /moʔ⁵/, /mouʔ⁵/
- (Fuzhou)
- mŏ̤h - vernacular (“don't”);
- mŏk - literary.
- Southern Min
- bo̍k - literary;
- bo̍h - vernacular.
- Dialectal data
Variety | Location | 莫 |
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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 (Hokkien) | /bɔk̚⁵/ |
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) | /moʔ⁵/ | |
Jian'ou (Northern Min) | /mz̩²⁴/ | |
Shantou (Teochew) | /mok̚⁵/ | |
Haikou (Hainanese) | /vo³³/ 不要 /mo³³/ 姓 |
- Middle Chinese: mak
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤak/
- (Zhengzhang): /*maːɡ/
Definitions
- none; nothing; not anything
- (literary or dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Eastern Min) do not; don't; must not
- particle indicating a rhetorical question
- a surname
Synonyms
Compounds
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Etymology 2
trad. | 莫 | |
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simp. # | 莫 | |
alternative forms | 勿 嘜/唛 麥/麦 賣/卖 |
Pronunciation
Definitions
(deprecated template usage) 莫 (Southern Min)
Synonyms
Etymology 3
trad. | 莫 | |
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simp. # | 莫 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mù
- Wade–Giles: mu4
- Yale: mù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
- Palladius: му (mu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mou6
- Yale: mouh
- Cantonese Pinyin: mou6
- Guangdong Romanization: mou6
- Sinological IPA (key): /mou̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
Definitions
Compounds
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Japanese
Kanji
Readings
- Go-on: も (mo); まく (maku)
- Kan-on: ぼ (bo); ばく (baku)
- Kun: くれ (kure, 莫れ); ない (nai, 莫い); なかれ (nakare, 莫れ)
Korean
Hanja
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Vietnamese
Han character
莫: Hán Việt readings: mạc (
莫: Nôm readings: mác[1][2][3][4][5][6], mạc[1][2][5][6], mếch[1]
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References
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