牡

See also 牝

Translingual

simpl. and trad.
牡

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 牛 (“cattle”) + phonetic 土

Han character

牡 (radical 93 牛+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 竹手土 (HQG), four-corner 2451₀)

1. cow
2. male of animals
3. bolt of door

References

• KangXi: page 697, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19933
• Dae Jaweon: page 1110, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1801, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7261

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Cantonese

Hanzi

牡 (Yale maau5)

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Japanese

Kanji

牡

Readings

• On: ぼ (bo), ぼう (bō)
• Kun: おす (osu)

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Korean

Hanja

牡 (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune-Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

牡 (pinyin lào (lao4), lóu (lou2), mǔ (mu3), Wade-Giles lao⁴, lou², mu³)

Compounds

• 牡丹

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Vietnamese

Han character

牡 (mẫu)