姆

姆 U+59C6, 姆 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-59C6 ← 姅 [U+59C5] CJK Unified Ideographs 姇 → [U+59C7]

Translingual

Han character

姆 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 女田卜戈 (VWYI), four-corner 4745₀, composition ⿰女母)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 258, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6159
• Dae Jaweon: page 523, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1041, character 13
• Unihan data for U+59C6

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Chinese

trad.		姆
simp. #		姆

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
脢	*mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴	*mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海	*hmlɯːʔ
毐	*ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣	*mɯ
拇	*mɯʔ
母	*mɯʔ
胟	*mɯʔ
姆	*mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮	*mɯʔ
踇	*mɯʔ
苺	*mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓	*mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏	*mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵	*mrɯŋʔ
慜	*mrɯŋʔ
毋	*ma
梅	*mɯː
酶	*mɯː
鋂	*mɯː
每	*mɯːʔ
毎	*mɯːs
痗	*mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦	*hmɯːs
誨	*hmɯːs
悔	*hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉	*mrɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ) : semantic 女 (“female”) + phonetic 母 (OC *mɯʔ).

Pronunciation 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 姆

1. ^† female tutor who teaches women "female virtues" (in feudal China)
2. woman who looks after small children

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 姆

1. Only used in 姆媽／姆妈 (m̄mā).

Pronunciation 3

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): m̌ (m³)

  (Zhuyin): ㆬˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: m̌
    • Zhuyin: ㆬˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: m̌
    • Wade–Giles: m³
    • Yale: m̌
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: m3
    • Palladius: м (m)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /m̩²¹⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 姆

1. Only used in 姆們／姆们 (m̌men).

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Japanese

Kanji

姆

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. wet nurse

Readings

• Go-on: も (mo)
• Kan-on: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: うば (uba, 姆)、かしずき (kashizuki)

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Korean

Hanja

姆 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo)

1. child's governess
2. matron

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Vietnamese

Han character

姆: Hán Nôm readings: mỗ, mẫu

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