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務

See also: 务
務 U+52D9, 務
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-52D9
← 勘
[U+52D8] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 勚 →
[U+52DA]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

務 (radical 19, 力+9, 11 strokes, cangjie input 弓竹竹水尸 (NHHES) or 弓竹人大尸 (NHOKS), four-corner 18227, composition ⿰矛务)

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • KangXi: page 148, character 20
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2394
  • Dae Jaweon: page 334, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2765, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+52D9

ChineseEdit

trad. 務
simp. 务

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堥 *muː, *mu
蓩 *muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱 *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅 *mruː
罞 *mruː, *muːŋ
蝥 *mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜 *mruː
瞀 *moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗 *moːɡs
袤 *mus
雺 *mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋 *mus
楙 *mus
矛 *mu
蟊 *mu
髳 *mu, *muːŋ
鍪 *mu
鞪 *mu, *moːɡ
糅 *ml'us
腬 *ml'us, *mlju
柔 *mlju
揉 *mju
蹂 *mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒 *mju
騥 *mju
蝚 *mju
葇 *mju, *mjuʔ
鞣 *mju, *mjus
鰇 *mju
瑈 *mju
鶔 *mju
楺 *mjuʔ
煣 *mjuʔ, *mjus
輮 *mjuʔ, *mjus
韖 *mjuʔ
敄 *moʔ, *mos
務 *moɡs
鶩 *moɡs, *moːɡ
騖 *moɡs
婺 *moɡs
霚 *moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍 *moɡs
霧 *moɡs, *moːŋ
霿 *moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘 *moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moɡs): phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 力 (“strength”).

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mow (“to work; to move”) (STEDT). Cognate with 懋 (OC *mus, “to strive”), Garo mo (“to move”), Jingpho mu ⪤ ə mu (“work; labor”), Burmese မူ (mu, “to pursue some course of action; to act”).

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 務
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡遇切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/muə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/mioH/
Wang
Li 		/mĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wù
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 務
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjuH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m(r)o-s/
English exert oneself

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 務
Reading # 1/1
No. 8849
Phonetic
component 		矛
Rime
group 		竇
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		務
Old
Chinese 		/*moɡs/

DefinitionsEdit

務

  1. to be engaged in; to be devoted to
    服務 / 服务  ―  fúwù  ―  service
  2. to seek; to pursue
  3. business; affairs
  4. must; should; be sure to
  5. 26th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "endeavor" (𝌟)
  6. A surname​.

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 務

DescendantsEdit

Sino-Xenic (務):

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

務

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

務 • (mu) (hangeul 무, revised mu, McCune–Reischauer mu)

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

務 (vụ, kiết)

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