默

默 U+9ED8, 默 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED8 ← 黗 [U+9ED7] CJK Unified Ideographs 黙 → [U+9ED9]

See also: 黙

Translingual

Shinjitai	黙
Simplified	默
Traditional	默

Han character

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

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		默
alt. forms		嘿 黙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 默
Large seal script	Small seal script

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”) – a dog silently chasing a person.

Pronunciation

• 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)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mo⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mak⁶
    • Yale: mahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚²/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mĕk
    • IPA ^(key): /mɛiʔ⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: be̍k
    • Tâi-lô: bi̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bek
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪk̚¹²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɪk̚⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪk̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bia̍k
    • Tâi-lô: bia̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biak
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biak̚²⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mig⁸
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mi̍k
    • IPA ^(key): /mik̚⁴/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: meq (T5)
    • IPA ^(key): /məʔ¹²/

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• 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

默

1. to be silent; to keep quiet; to keep still
2. secretly; covertly; imperceptibly
3. to write from memory
4. A surname​.

Compounds

• 冥默
• 啞默悄靜／哑默悄静
• 啽默
• 喑默
• 幽默 (yōumò)
• 幽默感 (yōumògǎn)
• 循默
• 慎默
• 打破沉默
• 拱默
• 沉默 (chénmò)
• 沉默寡言 (chénmòguǎyán)
• 沉默是金 (chénmò shì jīn)
• 沖默／冲默
• 淵默／渊默
• 潛神默思／潜神默思
• 潛神默記／潜神默记
• 潛移默化／潜移默化 (qiányímòhuà)
• 潛移默奪／潜移默夺
• 潛移默運／潜移默运
• 理默

• 瘖默
• 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
• 黑色幽默 (hēisè yōumò)
• 默不作聲／默不作声
• 默劇／默剧 (mòjù)
• 默哀 (mò'āi)
• 默唸／默念
• 默坐
• 默契 (mòqì)
• 默存
• 默寫／默写 (mòxiě)
• 默念 (mòniàn)
• 默思
• 默想 (mòxiǎng)
• 默書／默书
• 默無一言／默无一言
• 默然 (mòrán)

• 默然無聲／默然无声
• 默照禪／默照禅
• 默片
• 默示 (mòshì)
• 默祐
• 默禱／默祷
• 默稿
• 默算
• 默記／默记
• 默許／默许 (mòxǔ)
• 默認／默认 (mòrèn)
• 默誦／默诵
• 默識／默识
• 默讀／默读 (mòdú)
• 默默 (mòmò)
• 默默不語／默默不语
• 默默無聞／默默无闻
• 默默無聲／默默无声
• 默默無言／默默无言
• 默默無語／默默无语

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Japanese

Shinjitai	黙
Kyūjitai	默

Kanji

默

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黙)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): もく (moku)
• Kun: だまる (damaru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

默 (mặc, mắc)

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