靺

靺 U+977A, 靺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-977A ← 靹 [U+9779] CJK Unified Ideographs 靻 → [U+977B]

Translingual

Han character

靺 (Kangxi radical 177, 革+5, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿十木十 (TJDJ), four-corner 4559₀, composition ⿰革末)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1386, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42761
• Dae Jaweon: page 1900, character 35
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4329, character 8
• Unihan data for U+977A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		靺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
眛	*maːds, *mɯːds
沬	*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	*mreːds, *maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	*meːd, *maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶

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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: mut⁶
    • Yale: muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: mat

Rime
Character	靺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫撥切
Baxter	mat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/muɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*maːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	靺
Reading #	1/1
No.	9226
Phonetic component	末
Rime group	月
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	末
Old Chinese	/*maːd/

Definitions

靺

1. Only used in 靺鞨 (Mòhé).

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 靺 – see 襪 (“sock; stocking”). (This character is a variant form of 襪).

References

• “靺”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

靺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
• Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)

Korean

Hanja

靺 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

靺: Hán Nôm readings: mạt

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