貌

See also: 皃

Translingual

Han character

貌 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 2621₀, composition ⿰豸皃)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3913, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8C8C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		貌
alternative forms		皃 original and 2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
貌	*mreːwɢs
皃	*mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ
藐	*mawʔ, *mraːwɢ
邈	*mraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːwɢs) : phonetic 豹 (OC *preːwɢs) + semantic 皃 (“looks”).

Originally written as 皃 (OC *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ), which is a pictogram (象形) of the face.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mau
• Northern Min (KCR): māu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): māu / bāu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁶

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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: maau⁶
    • Yale: maauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mao⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mau
    • Hakka Romanization System: mau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /mau̯⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: māu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: māu
    • Tâi-lô: māu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mãu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāu
    • Tâi-lô: bāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bau
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bau⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mău
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mau³⁵/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 貌
Mandarin	Beijing	/mɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/mau⁵³/
	Tianjin	/mɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/mɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/mɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/mau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/mau⁴⁴/
	Xining	/mɔ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/mɔ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/mɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/mɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/mau³⁵/
	Chengdu	/mau¹³/
	Guiyang	/mao²¹³/
	Kunming	/mɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/mɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/mɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/mau⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/mɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/mɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/mɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/mæ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/mɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/muɔ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/mɔ²²/
	Tunxi	/mo¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/mau⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/maɯ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/mɑu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/mau⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/mɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mau²²/
	Nanning	/mau²²/
	Hong Kong	/mau²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/mau²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/mɑu²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/mau⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/mãu³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/mau³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: maewH

Rime
Character	貌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫敎切
Baxter	maewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠauH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚauH/
Shao Rongfen	/mauH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨwH/
Li Rong	/mauH/
Wang Li	/mauH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mauH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrawk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːwɢs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mào
Middle Chinese	‹ maewH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrawk-s/
English	appearance, manner
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	貌
Reading #	1/1
No.	8932
Phonetic component	皃
Rime group	豹
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	皃
Old Chinese	/*mreːwɢs/
Notes	皃籀文

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 貌

1. facial appearance; facial features; looks
2. outward appearance
3. expression; countenance
4. (Classical or literary) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of

   焂，光動貌。／焂，光动貌。 [Classical Chinese]  ―  Shú, guāng dòng mào. [Pinyin]  ―  Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.

5. superficial; outer

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Japanese

Kanji

貌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō); まく (maku)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō); ばく (baku)
• Kun: かたち (katachi, 貌); かたどる (katadoru)

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Korean

Hanja

貌 (eumhun 모양 모 (moyang mo))

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Compounds

• 용모 (容貌, yongmo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貌: Hán Nôm readings: mạo

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References

• Nom Foundation