莫
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TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
莫 (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: volume 5, page 3217, character 15
- Unihan data for U+83AB
ChineseEdit
Glyph originEdit
Historical forms of the character 莫 | ||||
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Shang | Western Zhou | Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Chu Slip and silk script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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Old Chinese | |
蟆 | *mraː |
鬕 | *mraːɡs |
饃 | *maːl |
模 | *maː |
摸 | *maː, *maːɡ |
嫫 | *maː |
謨 | *maː |
膜 | *maː, *maːɡ |
摹 | *maː |
暮 | *maːɡs |
慕 | *maːɡs |
募 | *maːɡs |
墓 | *maːɡs |
慔 | *maːɡs |
莫 | *maːɡ |
寞 | *maːɡ |
漠 | *maːɡ |
幕 | *maːɡ |
鏌 | *maːɡ |
瘼 | *maːɡ |
鄚 | *maːɡ |
瞙 | *maːɡ |
嗼 | *maːɡ, *mraːɡ |
塻 | *maːɡ |
貘 | *mraːɡ |
驀 | *mraːɡ |
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
simp. and trad. |
莫 |
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From 無 (OC *ma, “there is no”) + distributive suffix *-k (Schuessler, 2007).
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫
- none; nothing; not anything
- (literary or dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, Gan, Hakka, Min Dong) do not; don't; must not
- particle indicating a rhetorical question
- A surname.
SynonymsEdit
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 莫
Etymology 2Edit
simp. and trad. |
莫 | |
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variant forms | 勿 嘜/唛 麥/麦 賣/卖 |
PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫 (Min Nan)
SynonymsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
simp. and trad. |
莫 |
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PronunciationEdit
DefinitionsEdit
莫
CompoundsEdit
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
莫
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
ReadingsEdit
- Go-on: も (mo); まく (maku)
- Kan-on: ぼ (bo); ばく (baku)
- Kun: くれ (kure, 莫れ); ない (nai, 莫い); なかれ (nakare, 莫れ)
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
莫 • (mak, mo) (hangeul 막, 모, revised mak, mo, McCune–Reischauer mak, mo, Yale mak, mo)
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