默

See also: 黙

Translingual

Japanese	黙
Simplified	默
Traditional	默

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: 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

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Chinese

trad.		默
simp. #		默
alternative forms		嘿 黙

Glyph origin

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／形声, OC *mlɯːɡ) : phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mak⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): mĕk
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): be̍k / bia̍k

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mig⁸

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁵meq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mò
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Yale: mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mak⁶
    • Yale: mahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mak⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: meg⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐk̚²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mĕk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛiʔ⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (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
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁵meq
    • MiniDict: 'meh^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ²'meq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /məʔ³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: mok

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
Baxter	mok
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mak6

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 默

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

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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, 默る)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 默 (mặc, mắc)

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