苜

See also: 𥄕

苜 U+82DC, 苜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82DC ← 苛 [U+82DB] CJK Unified Ideographs 苝 → [U+82DD]

Translingual

Han character

苜 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿月山 (TBU), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹目)

Usage notes

This character is not to be confused with 𥄕 (U+25115, "uneven eyes"), which contains ⻀, the ram's horn component instead of the grass radical.

Derived characters

• 𢱁, 𢉧, 𦱛, 𦳮, 𭔗, 𨘚, 𦢐
• 𥢞 (Exception: Only for mainland China character form which contains grass radical. Taiwan character form contains ⻀ instead)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1023, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30787
• Dae Jaweon: page 1482, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3190, character 4
• Unihan data for U+82DC

Chinese

trad.		苜
simp. #		苜

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瞐	*mroːɡ
苜	*moːd, *muɡ
目	*muɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːd, *muɡ) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 目 (OC *muɡ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): muk⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): borh⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mù
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mù
    • Wade–Giles: mu⁴
    • Yale: mù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
    • Palladius: му (mu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: muk⁶
    • Yale: muhk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: muk⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mug⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊk̚²/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: borh⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɒʔ⁴/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: borh⁷
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɒʔ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: mjuwk, mat

Rime
Character	苜	苜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)	末 (64)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	莫六切	莫撥切
Baxter	mjuwk	mat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/miuk̚/	/mʷɑt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/miuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muwk̚/	/mwat̚/
Li Rong	/miuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Wang Li	/mĭuk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uk̚/	/muɑt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù	mò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	muk6	mut6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːd/, /*muɡ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	苜	苜
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9332	9334
Phonetic component	目	目
Rime group	月	覺
Rime subdivision	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	末	目
Old Chinese	/*moːd/	/*muɡ/
Notes	上從卝，與蔑同源	見史記

Definitions

苜

1. Only used in 苜蓿 (mùxu, “Medicago”).

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03457

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “苜”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 161.

Japanese

Kanji

苜

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. clover
2. medic

Readings

• Go-on: もく (moku)
• Kan-on: ぼく (boku)

Compounds

• 苜蓿(もくしゅく) (mokushuku): Medicago polymorpha

Korean

Hanja

苜 • (mok) (hangeul 목, revised mok, McCune–Reischauer mok, Yale mok)

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Vietnamese

Han character

苜: Hán Nôm readings: mục

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References

• Nom Foundation