某
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
某 (radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一木 (TMD), four-corner 44904, composition ⿱甘木)
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 519, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14618
- Dae Jaweon: page 906, character 20
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1177, character 4
- Unihan data for U+67D0
ChineseEdit
Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 某 | ||
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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Ideogrammic compound (會意): 木 (“tree”) + 甘 (“sweet”); original form of 梅 (OC *mɯː).
Etymology 1Edit
| simp. and trad. |
某 | |
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Possibly Austroasiatic; compare Mon မူ (“what; anything”) (Schuessler, 2007).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
某
- certain; particular (person or thing)
- (humble, by itself) I
- Used in place of a person's given name, for anonymity purposes.
- Used in place of someone else's given name, to show dissatisfaction.
- Used in place of one's own given name, to refer to oneself with an intensified emotion.
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
| simp. and trad. |
某 | |
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| alternative forms | 姥 媒 厶 妻 | |
Tu (2018) suggests it is from 姥 (MC muoX), which was ultimately derived from 母 (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”). The usage of 姥 (“old woman”) to refer to "wife" parallels that of 翁 (“old man”) to refer to "husband" in Min Nan.
Cognate with Teochew 𡚸 (bhou2), Min Dong 𡚸 (muō).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
某
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 某 – see 梅 (“Chinese plum; ver=180112}}; etc.”). (This character, 某, is a variant form of 梅.) |
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
- a certain person; a certain object
ReadingsEdit
PrefixEdit
- certain
- 某大学
- bō-daigaku
- a certain university
- 某大学
PronounEdit
- (obsolete) Someone; somebody; a certain person.
- (obsolete) I; me. (Used by samurai.)
- 1632: Diego Collado, Niffon no Cotõbani Yô Confesion, p. 4
- R. Sorẽgaxĩga cotòxi Deus no vòn jifino vie iòri Chriſtian ni nàri maràxitẽ gozàru iùie, ni, mãda confeſion vo mõsaĩdẽ gozàru.
- R. Ego ex Dei miſericordia hoc anno Chriſtianus factus, nunquam confeſſionem Sacramentalem feci: vnde hæc, quam modo incipio, erit prima.
- (Having become Christian out of the mercy of God this year, I have never made sacramental confession; whence, as I am just beginning, it will be the first.)
- 1632: Diego Collado, Niffon no Cotõbani Yô Confesion, p. 4
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
某 • (mo, mae) (hangeul 모, 매, revised mo, mae, McCune–Reischauer mo, mae, Yale mo, may)
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
某: Hán Việt readings: mỗ[1][2][3]
某: Nôm readings: mỗ[1][2], mới[1][3], mấy[1][3], mõ[1], mọ[1], mỏ[1], mổ[1], múa[1], mỏi[1], màu[1], mó[2], mồi[3], với[3]
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