See also:
U+67D0, 某
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-67D0

[U+67CF]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+67D1]

Translingual

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Han character

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(Kangxi radical 75, +5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿一木 (TMD), four-corner 44904, composition )

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: 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

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (tree) + (sweet); original form of (OC *mɯː).

Etymology 1

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alternative forms 𣐥
(in )

Possibly Austroasiatic; compare Mon မူ (what; anything) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /mou²¹⁴/
Harbin /mu²¹³/
/mau²¹³/
Tianjin /mou¹³/
/mu¹³/
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 (Hokkien) /bɔ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mu³²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /me²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /mõu⁵³/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mɔu²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (137)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter muwX
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mau5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9275
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mɯʔ/

Definitions

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  1. unspecified or not explicitly named (amount, person, or thing); some; a certain; so-and-so
      ―  mǒu nián mǒu yuè mǒu  ―  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.
      ―  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.

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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alternative forms


 
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Tu (2018) suggests it is from (MC muX), which was ultimately derived from (OC *mɯʔ, “mother”). The usage of (“old woman”) to refer to "wife" parallels that of (“old man”) to refer to "husband" in Min Nan.

Cognate with Teochew 𡚸 (bhou2), Eastern Min 𡚸 (muō).

Pronunciation

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Definitions

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  1. (Hokkien) wife
Synonyms
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Compounds

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Etymology 3

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character is a variant form of ).

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Japanese

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Kanji

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(Jōyō kanji)

  1. a certain person; a certain object

Readings

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From Middle Chinese (MC muwX); compare Mandarin (mǒu):

  • Go-on: (mu) (me)
  • Kan-on: ぼう (, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese (MC mwoj); compare Mandarin (méi):

From native Japanese roots:

Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
ぼう
Grade: S
kan'on

From Middle Chinese (MC muwX).

Prefix

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(ぼう) (bō-

  1. certain (denoting that the speaker is referring to a specific person or thing that they do not want to name directly, implying that the listener should infer the identity of the referent)
    (ぼう)大学(だいがく)
    -daigaku
    a certain university

Noun

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(ぼう) (

  1. (literary) a certain person or thing; a so-and-so
    Synonym: なにがし (nanigashi)

Pronoun

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(ぼう) (

  1. (obsolete) I; me

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
それがし
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronoun

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(それがし) (soregashi

  1. (obsolete) someone; somebody; a certain person
  2. (obsolete, used by samurai) I; me
    • 1632, Diego Collado, Niffon no Cotõbani Yô Confesion, page 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.)
      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.)
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
なにがし
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
なにがし
[pronoun] a certain person; so-and-so
[pronoun] a certain place
[pronoun] (humble) I; me
[noun] (usually in the form なにがしか (nanigashika), pitch accent [0] or [2]) a certain amount (especially of money, implying "not much")
Alternative spellings
何某, 何がし
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

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Hanja

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(eumhun 아무 (amu mo))

  1. hanja form? of (certain thing or person)

(eumhun 매화나무 (maehwanamu mae))

  1. hanja form? of (Prunus mume tree)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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: Hán Việt readings: mỗ[1][2][3]
: Nôm readings: mỗ[1][2], mới[1][3], mấy[1][3], [1], mọ[1], mỏ[1], mổ[1], múa[1], mỏi[1], màu[1], [2], mồi[3], với[3]

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