孟母

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Chinese

first month; eldest brother; surname female; mother
simp. and trad.
(孟母)
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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (109) (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II I
Fanqie
Baxter maengH muwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠæŋH/ /məuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚaŋH/ /məuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/maŋH/ /məuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/maɨjŋH/ /məwX/
Li
Rong
/mɐŋH/ /muX/
Wang
Li
/mɐŋH/ /məuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mɐŋH/ /mə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mèng mǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mang6 mau5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mèng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mængH › ‹ muwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁraŋ-s/ /*məʔ/ (? or *mˁoʔ)
English eldest, great mother

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9152 9288
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mraːŋs/ /*mɯʔ/

Proper noun

孟母

  1. mother of Mencius

Derived terms