See also:
U+8C8C, 貌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C8C

[U+8C8B]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8C8D]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 153, +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 26210, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3913, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8C8C

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
2nd round simp.
alternative forms ancient

Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *mreːwɢs) : phonetic (OC *preːwɢs) + semantic (looks).

Originally written as (OC *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ), which is a pictogram (象形) of the face.

Pronunciation edit



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /mɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /mau⁵³/
Tianjin /mɑu⁵³/
Jinan /mɔ²¹/
Qingdao /mɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mau³¹²/
Xi'an /mau⁴⁴/
Xining /mɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /mɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /mɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /mɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /mau³⁵/
Chengdu /mau¹³/
Guiyang /mao²¹³/
Kunming /mɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /mɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /mɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /mau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /mɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /mɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /mɔ²³/
Suzhou /mæ³¹/
Hangzhou /mɔ¹³/
Wenzhou /muɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /maɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /mɑu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /mau⁵³/
Taoyuan /mɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mau²²/
Nanning /mau²²/
Hong Kong /mau²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /mau²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mau⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /mãu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mau³¹/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Baxter maewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen
/mauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/maɨwH/
Li
Rong
/mauH/
Wang
Li
/mauH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
maau6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mào
Middle
Chinese
‹ maewH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁrawk-s/
English appearance, manner

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 8932
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mreːwɢs/
Notes

Definitions edit

  1. facial appearance; facial features; looks
  2. outward appearance
  3. expression; countenance
  4. (Classical) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of
    ,…… [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    ,…… [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 1037, 《集韻》 (Jiyun)
    Shú,...... Guāng dòng mào. [Pinyin]
    Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.
  5. superficial; outer

Compounds edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. facial appearance

Readings edit

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese (MC maewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 모〯 (mwǒ) (Yale: mwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

(eumhun 모양 (moyang mo))

  1. Hanja form? of (appearance).

Compounds edit

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典. [1]

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

: Hán Nôm readings: mạo

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References edit