黙

Translingual

shinjitai	黙
simplified	默
traditional	默

Etymology

Japanese shinjitai Simplified from 默 (黑 → 黒); further, 黒 is split into 里 and 灬 (on the bottom). Compare 点 (from 點).

Han character

黙 (radical 203 黑+11, 23 strokes, cangjie input 田大火 (WKF))

1. silent
2. quiet, still
3. dark

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1519, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4744, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9ED9

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Japanese

Kanji

黙 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: もく (moku)
• Kun: だまる (黙る damaru), もだす (modasu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

黙 (pinyin mò (mo4), Wade-Giles mo⁴)

Last modified on 10 January 2011, at 19:41