默

See also: 黙

默	U+9ED8, 默 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED8

← 黗
[U+9ED7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

黙 →
[U+9ED9]

Translingual[edit]

Japanese	黙
Simplified	默
Traditional	默

Han character[edit]

默 (radical 203, 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈大 (WFIK), four-corner 6333₄, composition ⿰黑犬)

References[edit]

KangXi: page 1519, character 11
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063
Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 24
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4744, character 11
Unihan data for U+9ED8

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.		默
alternative forms		嘿黙

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 默
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
嚜	*mrɯɡs
嫼	*ʔmrɯːd
墨	*mlɯːɡ
默	*mlɯːɡ
纆	*mɯːɡ
黑	*hmlɯːɡ
潶	*hmlɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mlɯːɡ): phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶
Min Dong (BUC): mĕk
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): be̍k / bia̍k

(Teochew, Peng'im): mig⁸
Wu (Wiktionary): meq (T5)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mò
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mo⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mò
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mwɔ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mak⁶
  - Yale: mahk
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹
  - Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚²/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mĕk
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛiʔ⁵/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: be̍k
  - Tâi-lô: bi̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bek
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei, Kaohsiung): /biɪk̚⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪk̚¹²¹/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bia̍k
  - Tâi-lô: bia̍k
  - Phofsit Daibuun: biak
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biak̚²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mig⁸
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mi̍k
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mik̚⁴/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: meq (T5)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /məʔ¹²/

Middle Chinese: /mək̚/

Rime
Character	默
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	德 (131)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫北切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mək̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mək̚/
Shao Rongfen	/mək̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mək̚/
Li Rong	/mək̚/
Wang Li	/mək̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mək̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mlɯːɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	默
Reading #	1/1
No.	5107
Phonetic component	黑
Rime group	職
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	墨
Old Chinese	/*mlɯːɡ/

Definitions[edit]

默

to be silent; to keep quiet; to keep still
secretly; covertly; imperceptibly
to write from memory
A surname.

Compounds[edit]

瘖默 (yīnmò)
眇默
緘默／缄默 (jiānmò)
緘默權／缄默权
靜默／静默 (jìngmò)
鴉默雀靜／鸦默雀静 (yāmoqiǎojìng)
黑色幽默 (hēisè yōumò)
默不作聲／默不作声 (mòbùzuòshēng)
默劇／默剧 (mòjù)
默哀 (mò'āi)
默唸／默念
默坐 (mòzuò)
默契 (mòqì)
默存
默寫／默写 (mòxiě)
默念 (mòniàn)
默思
默想 (mòxiǎng)
默書／默书 (mòshū)
默無一言／默无一言
默然 (mòrán)

Japanese[edit]

Shinjitai	黙
Kyūjitai	默

Kanji[edit]

Readings[edit]

On (unclassified): もく (moku)
Kun: だまる (damaru, 默る)

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

默 • (muk) (hangeul 묵, revised muk, McCune–Reischauer muk, Yale muk)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

默 (mặc, mắc)

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默

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Readings[edit]

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Vietnamese[edit]

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