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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水廿日大 (ETAK), four-corner 34134, composition)

  1. desert
  2. aloof, indifferent, cool
  3. The number 10-12.

See also

  • (the SI prefix pico)
  • Chinese Numeral

References

  • KangXi: page 646, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18149
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1055, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1694, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+6F20

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Large seal script 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

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
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
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9256
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːɡ/

Definitions

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Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. vague
  2. obscure
  3. desert
  4. wide

Readings


Korean

Hanja

(mak) (hangeul , revised mak, McCune-Reischauer mak, Yale mak)

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