默

See also 黙

Translingual

shinjitai	黙
simplified	默
traditional	默

Etymology

黑 (“black”) + 犬 (“dog”)

Han character

默 (radical 203 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈大 (WFIK), four-corner 6333₄)

1. silent
2. quiet, still
3. dark

References

• KangXi: page 1519, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063
• Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4744, character 11
• Unihan data for U+9ED8

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Cantonese

Hanzi

默 (Yale mak6)

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Japanese

Kanji

默

Readings

• On: もく (moku)
• Kun: だまる (damaru)

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Korean

Hanja

默 (hangeul 묵, revised muk, McCune-Reischauer muk, Yale muk)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

默 (pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo⁴)

Compounds

• 默哀
• 默祷
• 默读
• 默记
• 默默
• 默默无闻
• 默念
• 默片
• 默契
• 默然
• 默认
• 默诵
• 默想
• 默写
• 默许

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Vietnamese

Han character

默 (mặc, mắc)