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幕

幕

Translingual

Han character

幕 (radical 50 巾+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大月 (TAKB), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱莫巾)

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 335, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9051
  • Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 749, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5E55

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 幕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幕
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːɡ) : phonetic 莫 ‎(OC *maːɡ) + semantic 巾 ‎(“cloth”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 慕各切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mak̚/
Li
Rong		 /mɑk̚/
Wang
Li		 /mɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mak ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤak/
English covering

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 幕
Reading # 1/1
No. 9257
Phonetic
component		 莫
Rime
group		 鐸
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 莫
Old
Chinese		 /*maːɡ/

Definitions

幕

  1. curtain; screen; tent

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

幕

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Noun

幕 ‎(hiragana まく, romaji maku)

  1. curtain
  2. act (division of theatrical performance)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

幕 • ‎(mak) (hangeul 막, revised mak, McCune-Reischauer mak, Yale mak)

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Vietnamese

Han character

幕 (mạc)

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