字母

Chinese

		letter; symbol; character letter; symbol; character; word	female; mother
simp. and trad. (字母)		字	母

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zìmǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): зыму (zɨmu, III-I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ mou⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): sṳ-mû
• Min Dong (BUC): cê-mō̤
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): lī-bú / jī-bó / jī-bú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ri⁷ bho²

• Wu (Wiktionary): ³zr-mu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zìmǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄇㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zìhmǔ
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-mu³
    • Yale: dz̀-mǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhmuu
    • Palladius: цзыму (czymu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: зыму (zɨmu, III-I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁴⁴ mou²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi⁶ mou⁵
    • Yale: jih móuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ mou⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ mou⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²² mou̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sṳ-mû
    • Hakka Romanization System: sii mu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: si⁴ mu¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sɨ⁵⁵ mu²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: cê-mō̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡si²⁴²⁻⁵³ mo³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lī-bú
    • Tâi-lô: lī-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lixbuo
    • IPA (Taipei): /li³³⁻¹¹ bu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /li⁴¹⁻²² bu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /li²²⁻²¹ bu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bó
    • Tâi-lô: jī-bó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jixboir
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡ʑi²²⁻²¹ bo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑi³³⁻²¹ bɤ⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jī-bú
    • Tâi-lô: jī-bú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: jixbuo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ʑi³³⁻²¹ bu⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ri⁷ bho²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: jī bó
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /d͡zi¹¹ bo⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: ³zr-mu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /z̥z̩²² mv̩ʷ⁴⁴/

Noun

字母

1. letter (of an alphabet)

   英文有26個字母。／英文有26个字母。  ―  Yīngwén yǒu 26 ge zìmǔ.  ―  There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.

2. alphabet

   拉丁字母  ―  lādīngzìmǔ  ―  Latin alphabet

   字母數據／字母数据  ―  zìmǔ shùjù  ―  alphabetical data

3. (Chinese phonetics) character representing an initial consonant

   三十六字母  ―  sānshíliù zìmǔ  ―  Thirty-six Initials (of rime tables)

4. (typography) matrix

   Synonym: 字模 (zìmó)

Synonyms

• (alphabet): 字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo), 字母系統／字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)

Derived terms

• 字母圈 (zìmǔquān)
• 字母表 (zìmǔbiǎo)
• 拉丁字母 (lādīng zìmǔ)
• 拼音字母 (pīnyīn zìmǔ)
• 斯拉夫字母
• 腓尼基字母 (féiníjī zìmǔ)

• 首字母 (shǒuzìmǔ)
• 四字母詞／四字母词 (sìzìmǔcí)
• 大寫字母／大写字母 (dàxiě zìmǔ)
• 字母系統／字母系统 (zìmǔ xìtǒng)
• 字母詞／字母词
• 西里爾字母／西里尔字母 (Xīlǐ'ěr zìmǔ)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
字	母
じ Grade: 1	ぼ Grade: 2
goon	kan’on

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) じ​ぼ [jíꜜbò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [(d͡)ʑibo̞]

Noun

字(じ)母(ぼ) • (jibo) 

1. (orthography) a letter
2. (orthography) a jamo

References

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja in this term
字	母

Noun

字母 • (jamo) (hangeul 자모)

1. Hanja form^? of 자모 (“a hangeul letter; a jamo”).