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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 32 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大土 (TAKG), four-corner 44104, composition)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 238, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5431
  • Dae Jaweon: page 476, character 19
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 470, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5893

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mraː
*mraːɡs
*maːl
*maː
*maː, *maːɡ
*maː
*maː
*maː, *maːɡ
*maː
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡs
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ
*maːɡ, *mraːɡ
*maːɡ
*mraːɡ
*mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːɡs) : phonetic  (OC *maːɡ) + semantic .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/muoH/
Shao
Rongfen
/moH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mɔH/
Li
Rong
/moH/
Wang
Li
/muH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muoH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ muH ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.mˤak-s/
English grave (n.)

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. 9250
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːɡs/

Definitions

  1. grave; tomb

Compounds

  • 丘墓
  • 修墓
  • 公墓 (gōngmù)
  • 冢墓
  • 墓券
  • 墓園墓园 (mùyuán)
  • 墓地 (mùdì)
  • 墓坑
  • 墓室
  • 墓木
  • 墓木已拱
  • 墓生兒子墓生儿子
  • 墓田
  • 墓碑 (mùbēi)
  • 墓碣
  • 墓祭
  • 墓穴 (mùxué)
  • 墓葬 (mùzàng)
  • 墓表
  • 墓記墓记
  • 墓誌墓志
  • 墓誌銘墓志铭
  • 墓道 (mùdào)
  • 墓門墓门
  • 墟墓
  • 墳墓坟墓 (fénmù)
  • 壟墓垄墓
  • 封墓
  • 廬墓庐墓
  • 徒不上墓
  • 掃墓扫墓
  • 掃墓節扫墓节
  • 掘墓人
  • 易墓
  • 盜墓盗墓 (dàomù)
  • 省墓
  • 祖墓 (zǔmù)
  • 自掘墳墓自掘坟墓
  • 覆墓
  • 誓墓
  • 諛墓谀墓
  • 鎮墓獸镇墓兽
  • 陵墓 (língmù)
  • 鞭墓

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. grave; graveyard

Readings

Compounds

Noun

(hiragana はか, romaji haka)

  1. a grave, a tomb

References

  • New Nelson: 1073
  • Halpern: 2332
  • Halpern Learners: 1505
  • Heisig: 231
  • Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3k10.18
  1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Korean

Hanja

(myo) (hangeul , revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mộ, , mồ)

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