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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山竹手山 (BUHQU), four-corner 62014)

  1. be blurred in eyesight
  2. dull and mixed-up

References

  • KangXi: page 803, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23194
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1219, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2475, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+770A

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*maːw, *maːws
*maːw
*maːw, *maːws
*maːw, *maːws
*rɯ, *maːw
*maːw
*maːw
*maːw
*maːws
*maːws
*maːws, *mraːwɢ
*hmaːws
*hmaːws, *hmɯːbs
*mraːwɢ, *moːwɢ

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (89) (10)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɑuH/ /mˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/mɑuH/ /mᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/mɑuH/ /mɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mawH/ /maɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/mɑuH/ /mɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/mɑuH/ /mɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mɑuH/ /mɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mào
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8792 8797
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːws/ /*mraːwɢ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 惛眊
  • 憒眊愦眊
  • 昏眊
  • 眊眊
  • 眊眊眊
  • 眊眊稍稍
  • 眊聵眊聩
  • 老眊 (lǎomào)
  • 鈍眊钝眊

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. dim-sighted
  2. eyes not seeing clearly

Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

  1. blurred eyesight