茉

See also: 苿

茉 U+8309, 茉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8309 ← 茈 [U+8308] CJK Unified Ideographs 茊 → [U+830A]

Translingual

Han character

茉 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿木十 (TDJ), four-corner 4490₄, composition ⿱艹末)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30841
• Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 12
• Unihan data for U+8309

Chinese

trad.		茉
simp. #		茉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 末
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (末) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
眛	*maːds, *mɯːds
沬	*maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅	*mraːds
韎	*mreːds, *maːd
帓	*mraːd
粖	*meːd, *maːd
末	*maːd
昩	*maːd
秣	*maːd
靺	*maːd
眜	*maːd
抹	*maːd
妺	*maːd
怽	*maːd
沫	*maːd
袜	*maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mò (mo⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mut⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bā / bāu / bāng / ba̍k / boa̍h / boa̍t

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mò
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mò
    • Wade–Giles: mo⁴
    • Yale: mwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: moh
    • Palladius: мо (mo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mut⁶
    • Yale: muht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mut⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːt̚²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bā
    • Tâi-lô: bā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ba
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ba²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ba⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāu
    • Tâi-lô: bāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bau
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bau²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāng
    • Tâi-lô: bāng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bang
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /baŋ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ba̍k
    • Tâi-lô: ba̍k
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bak
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /bak̚⁴/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍h
    • Tâi-lô: bua̍h
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boah
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /buaʔ⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boa̍t
    • Tâi-lô: bua̍t
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boat
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /buat̚²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /buat̚⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buat̚¹²¹/

Note:

• bā/bāu/bāng/ba̍k/boa̍h - vernacular;
• boa̍t - literary.

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• Middle Chinese: mat

Rime
Character	茉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫撥切
Baxter	mat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/muɑt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mut6

Definitions

茉

1. Only used in 茉莉 (mòlì).

Japanese

Kanji

茉

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. white jasmine

Readings

• Go-on: まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
• Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)
• Kun: み (mi)

Korean

Hanja

茉 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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Vietnamese

Han character

茉: Hán Nôm readings: mạt, nhi

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