貌

See also: 皃

貌 U+8C8C, 貌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C8C ← 貋 [U+8C8B] CJK Unified Ideographs 貍 → [U+8C8D]

Contents

Translingual

Han character

貌 (radical 153, 豸+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 2621₀, composition ⿰豸皃)

References

• KangXi: page 1201, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3913, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8C8C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		貌
variant forms		皃 original and 2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皃) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
貌	*mreːwɢs
皃	*mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ
藐	*mawʔ, *mraːwɢ
邈	*mraːwɢ

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mào (mao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maau⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mau
• Min Bei (KCR): māu
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): māu / bāu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mao⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: mào
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄠˋ
    • Wade–Giles: mao⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maw
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maau⁶
    • Yale: maauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mao⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /maːu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mau
    • Hakka Romanization System: mau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mau⁴
    • IPA: /mau̯⁵⁵/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: māu
    • IPA ^(key): /mau⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: māu
    • Tâi-lô: māu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãʊ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /mãʊ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāu
    • Tâi-lô: bāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bau
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /baʊ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mao⁶
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mău
    • IPA ^(key): /mau³⁵/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 貌
Mandarin	Beijing	/mɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/mau⁵³/
	Tianjin	/mɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/mɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/mɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/mau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/mau⁴⁴/
	Xining	/mɔ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/mɔ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/mɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/mɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/mau³⁵/
	Chengdu	/mau¹³/
	Guiyang	/mao²¹³/
	Kunming	/mɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/mɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/mɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/mau⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/mɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/mɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/mɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/mæ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/mɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/muɔ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/mɔ²²/
	Tunxi	/mo¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/mau⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/maɯ⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/mɑu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/mau⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/mɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mau²²/
	Nanning	/mau²²/
	Hong Kong	/mau²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/mau²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/mɑu²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/mau⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/mãu³⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/mau³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠau^H/▼

Rime
Character	貌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫敎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠauH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚauH/
Shao Rongfen	/mauH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨwH/
Li Rong	/mauH/
Wang Li	/mauH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mauH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mào

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤrawk-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːwɢs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mào
Middle Chinese	‹ maewH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁrawk-s/
English	appearance, manner
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	貌
Reading #	1/1
No.	8932
Phonetic component	皃
Rime group	豹
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	皃
Old Chinese	/*mreːwɢs/
Notes	皃籀文

Definitions

貌

1. facial appearance; facial features; looks
2. outward appearance
3. expression; countenance
4. (Classical Chinese or literary) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of

   焂，光動貌。 / 焂，光动貌。 [Classical Chinese]  ―  Shú, guāng dòng mào. [Pinyin]  ―  Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.

5. superficial; outer

Compounds

Derived terms from 貌

• 一貌堂堂
• 以貌取人 (yǐmàoqǔrén)
• 像貌 (xiàngmào)
• 全貌 (quánmào)
• 其貌不揚／其貌不扬
• 厚貌深情
• 原貌 (yuánmào)
• 古貌古心
• 品貌 (pǐnmào)
• 品貌風流／品貌风流
• 地貌 (dìmào)
• 外貌 (wàimào)
• 女貌郎才
• 容貌 (róngmào)
• 岸然道貌
• 年貌
• 年輕貌美／年轻貌美
• 形貌 (xíngmào)
• 德言工貌
• 情貌
• 才貌 (cáimào)
• 才貌雙全／才貌双全
• 改貌
• 文貌
• 新貌
• 月貌花容
• 月貌花龐／月貌花庞

• 概貌
• 樣貌／样貌 (yàngmào)
• 潘安之貌
• 潘岳貌美
• 潘貌
• 狀貌／状貌 (zhuàngmào)
• 玉肌花貌
• 玉貌
• 玉貌潘郎
• 玉貌花容
• 相貌 (xiàngmào)
• 相貌堂堂 (xiàngmàotángtáng)
• 矯情飾貌／矫情饰貌
• 禮貌／礼貌 (lǐmào)
• 禮貌運動／礼貌运动
• 綺年玉貌／绮年玉貌
• 美貌 (měimào)
• 美貌無雙／美貌无双
• 聲貌／声貌
• 聲音笑貌／声音笑貌
• 花容月貌 (huāróng-yuèmào)
• 花容玉貌
• 花顏月貌／花颜月貌
• 見貌辨色／见貌辨色
• 觀貌察色／观貌察色
• 謹毛失貌／谨毛失貌

• 貌不驚人／貌不惊人
• 貌似 (màosì)
• 貌合心離／貌合心离
• 貌合情離／貌合情离
• 貌合神離／貌合神离
• 貌合行離／貌合行离
• 貌同實異／貌同实异
• 貌執／貌执
• 貌寢／貌寝
• 貌是情非
• 貌白神清
• 貌相 (màoxiàng)
• 貌美
• 貌美如花
• 貌言
• 貌閱／貌阅
• 道貌
• 道貌凜然／道貌凛然
• 道貌岸然 (dàomào'ànrán)
• 郎才女貌
• 醉貌咕咚 (zuìmaogūdōng)
• 鑒貌辨色／鉴貌辨色
• 面貌 (miànmào)
• 音容笑貌
• 風貌／风貌 (fēngmào)
• 體貌／体貌 (tǐmào)

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Japanese

Kanji

貌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō); まく (maku)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō); ばく (baku)
• Kun: かたち (katachi, 貌); かたどる (katadoru)

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Korean

Hanja

貌 • (mo, mak) (hangeul 모, 막, revised mo, mak, McCune–Reischauer mo, mak, Yale mo, mak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

貌: Hán Việt readings: mạo

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References

• Nom Foundation