某

See also: 柑

某 U+67D0, 某 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67D0 ← 柏 [U+67CF] CJK Unified Ideographs 柑 → [U+67D1]

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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: volume 2, page 1177, character 4
• Unihan data for U+67D0

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ChineseEdit

simp. and trad.		某

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 某
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (某) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
某	*mɯʔ
謀	*mɯ
媒	*mɯː
煤	*mɯː
腜	*mɯː
禖	*mɯː

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǒu (mou³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mau⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mêu
• Min Nan (POJ): bó͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄡˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mou³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moou
    • IPA ^(key): /moʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mau⁵
    • Yale: máuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mau⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: meo⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐu̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mêu
    • Hakka Romanization System: meu´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: meu¹
    • IPA: /me̯u²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bó͘
    • Tâi-lô: bóo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bor
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ⁴¹/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 某
Mandarin	Beijing	/mou²¹⁴/
	Harbin	/mu²¹³/ /mau²¹³/
	Tianjin	/mou¹³/ /mu¹³/ 舊
	Jinan	/mu⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/mu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/mu⁵³/
	Xi'an	/mu⁵³/
	Xining	/mv̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/mu⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/mu⁴⁴²/
	Ürümqi	/mu⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/məu⁴²/
	Chengdu	/moŋ⁵³/
	Guiyang	/moŋ⁴²/
	Kunming	/məu⁵³/
	Nanjing	/məi²¹²/
	Hefei	/mʊ²⁴/
Jin	Taiyuan	/mu¹¹/
	Pingyao	/mu⁵³/
	Hohhot	/mu⁵³/
Wu	Shanghai	/mɤ²³/
	Suzhou	/mɤ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/mu⁵³/
	Wenzhou	/mu³⁵/
Hui	Shexian	/mɔ³⁵/
	Tunxi	/mo³¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/məu⁴¹/
	Xiangtan	/məɯ⁴²/
Gan	Nanchang	/mɛu²¹³/
Hakka	Meixian	/meu⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan	/meu²⁴/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɐu²³/
	Nanning	/mɐu²⁴/
	Hong Kong	/mɐu¹³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/bɔ⁵³/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/mu³²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/me²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/mõu⁵³/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/mɔu²¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /məu^X/▼

Rime
Character	某
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫厚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuX/
Pan Wuyun	/məuX/
Shao Rongfen	/məuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwX/
Li Rong	/muX/
Wang Li	/məuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǒu

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*məʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯʔ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	某
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ muwX ›
Old Chinese	/*məʔ/
English	so and so; a certain
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	某
Reading #	1/1
No.	9275
Phonetic component	某
Rime group	之
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	母
Old Chinese	/*mɯʔ/

DefinitionsEdit

某

1. a certain, particular (person or thing)

   某年某月某日  ―  mǒu nián mǒu yuè mǒu rì  ―  on day x, month y of year z

2. (humble, by itself) I
3. Used in place of a person's given name, for anonymity purposes.

   張某 / 张某  ―  Zhāng Mǒu  ―  a person with the surname of Zhang

4. Used in place of someone else's given name, to show dissatisfaction.
5. Used in place of one's own given name, to refer to oneself with an intensified emotion.
6. (Min Nan) wife

CompoundsEdit

• 某乙
• 某些 (mǒuxiē)
• 某人 (mǒurén)
• 某個／某个 (mǒugè)
• 某們／某们
• 某士
• 某子

• 某家
• 某屏
• 某日
• 某某 (mǒumǒu)
• 某甫
• 某甲
• 某矣

• 某等 (mǒuděng)
• 某者
• 某舍
• 某門／某门
• 查某 (chámǒu)
• 誰某／谁某

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

某

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. a certain person; a certain object

ReadingsEdit

• On (unclassified): ぼう (bō, Jōyō); ばい (bai)
• Kun: それがし (soregashi, 某)

PrefixEdit

某 (hiragana ぼう, rōmaji bō-)

1. certain

   某 (ぼう)大学 (だいがく)

   bō-daigaku

   a certain university

PronounEdit

某 (hiragana それがし, rōmaji soregashi)

1. (obsolete) Someone; somebody; a certain person.
2. (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.)

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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 (mỗ, mấy, mồi, mới, với)

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