懋

懋 U+61CB, 懋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61CB ← 懊 [U+61CA] CJK Unified Ideographs 懌 → [U+61CC]

Translingual

Han character

懋 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木木心 (DDP), four-corner 4433₉, composition ⿱楙心)

1. splendid, grand, majestic

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 405, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11333
• Dae Jaweon: page 746, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2358, character 2
• Unihan data for U+61CB

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Chinese

trad.		懋
simp. #		懋

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
堥	*muː, *mu
蓩	*muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱	*ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅	*mruː
罞	*mruː, *muːŋ
蝥	*mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜	*mruː
瞀	*moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗	*moːɡs
袤	*mus
雺	*mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋	*mus
楙	*mus
矛	*mu
蟊	*mu
髳	*mu, *muːŋ
鍪	*mu
鞪	*mu, *moːɡ
糅	*ml'us
腬	*ml'us, *mlju
柔	*mlju
揉	*mju
蹂	*mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒	*mju
騥	*mju
蝚	*mju
葇	*mju, *mjuʔ
鞣	*mju, *mjus
鰇	*mju
瑈	*mju
鶔	*mju
楺	*mjuʔ
煣	*mjuʔ, *mjus
輮	*mjuʔ, *mjus
韖	*mjuʔ
敄	*moʔ, *mos
務	*moɡs
鶩	*moɡs, *moːɡ
騖	*moɡs
婺	*moɡs
霚	*moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍	*moɡs
霧	*moɡs, *moːŋ
霿	*moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘	*moːɡ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁶

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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: mau⁶
    • Yale: mauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: muwH

Rime
Character	懋
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫候切
Baxter	muwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/
Li Rong	/muH/
Wang Li	/məuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	懋
Reading #	1/1
No.	8812
Phonetic component	矛
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

懋

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)
• Kun: つとめる (tsutomeru, 懋める)
• Nanori: つとむ (tsutomu)

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Korean

Hanja

懋 (eum 무 (mu))

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Vietnamese

Han character

懋: Hán Nôm readings: mậu

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References

• Nom Foundation