莫
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
莫 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 11 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 10 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿日大 (TAK), four-corner 44430, composition ⿱艹旲 or ⿱䒤大)
Derived charactersEdit
- 嗼, 塻, 嫫, 𡻟, 幙, 慔, 摸, 漠, 獏, 暯, 膜, 模, 氁, 㷬, 𭷱, 𬎇, 𮂓, 瞙, 糢, 𮖪, 縸(𫄲), 蟆, 謨(谟), 貘, 𧷸, 𨢢, 鏌(镆), 𩌧, 饃(馍), 䮬, 𩻁, 𪍤(𬹍), 𠢓, 鄚, 𮍅, 𪅐
- 寞, 𢊗, 瘼, 𩄻, 鬕, 募, 𠻚, 墓, 𡖶, 𡠜, 幕, 摹, 暮, 㱳, 慕, 𬑤, 蟇, 謩, 驀(蓦), 𡈗
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1035, character 13
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31078
- Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 13
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3217, character 15
- Unihan data for U+83AB
ChineseEdit
Glyph originEdit
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Pictogram (象形) – the sun (日) sinking into the bushes (屮); dusk. Original form of 暮 (OC *maːɡs, “dusk”).
The bottom was later distorted into 大.
Etymology 1Edit
| trad. | 莫 | |
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| simp. # | 莫 | |
| alternative forms | 𦶛 𦱤 䒬 | |
From 無 (OC *ma, “there is no”) + distributive suffix *-k (Schuessler, 2007).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫
- (literary) none; nothing; not anything
- (literary or dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min Dong, Xiang) do not; don't; must not
- 莫做聲！／莫做声！ [dialectal Mandarin] ― Mò zuòshēng! [Pinyin] ― Keep quiet! (literally, “Don't make a sound!”)
- 莫細膩。／莫细腻。 [Min Dong] ― mŏ̤h-sá̤-nê / [moʔ⁵⁻²¹ (s-)lɛ²¹³⁻⁵³ nˡɛi²⁴²] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA] ― Don't be too polite. / Make yourself at home.
- 你莫腿囉。／你莫腿啰。 [Xiang] ― nyi3 mo6 tei3 lo [Wiktionary] ― You don't joke.
- 發生火災莫驚慌／发生火灾莫惊慌 ― fāshēng huǒzāi mò jīnghuāng ― Don't be panicked when conflagration happens
- particle indicating a rhetorical question
- a surname
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 莫
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Etymology 2Edit
| trad. | 莫 | |
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PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫 (Min Nan)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
| trad. | 莫 | |
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PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫
- † Original form of 暮 (mù, “dusk; late”).
- † a kind of vegetable
- 彼汾沮洳，言采其莫。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Bǐ Fén jǔrù, yán cǎi qí mù. [Pinyin]
- (please add an English translation of this example)
CompoundsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “莫”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
莫
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
ReadingsEdit
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
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VietnameseEdit
Han characterEdit
莫: Hán Việt readings: mạc (
莫: Nôm readings: mác[1][2][3][4][5][6], mạc[1][2][5][6], mếch[1]
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