巨毋霸

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Chinese

very large; huge; tremendous
very large; huge; tremendous; gigantic
 
 no; not
feudal chief; rule by force; tyrant
feudal chief; rule by force; tyrant; lord; master; hegemon; usurp
 
trad. (巨毋霸) 巨 毋 霸
simp. #(巨毋霸) 巨 毋 霸
alternative forms 巨無霸／巨无霸
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Etymology

The name was mentioned in the biography of Emperor Wang Mang in the Book of Han as the purported "self-appellation" of a giant. Both the text, and allegedly Wang himself according to the text, interpreted "巨毋" as a family name and "霸" as the given name. The biography wrote explicitly that the character was fictional, intended by its creator as a humorous pun at the expense of the emperor himself: Wang was styled 巨君 (Jùjūn), and the name 巨毋霸 (jùwúbà) could be interpreted as "Ju (巨) will never gain supremacy."

In the Book of the Later Han the alternative form 巨無霸／巨无霸 (jùwúbà) was mentioned, this time with a slight air of reality, as the name of a warrior in the service of Wang Mang.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 巨 毋 霸
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30) 明 (4) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 魚 (22) 虞 (24) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed Open
Division (等) III III II
Fanqie 其吕切 武夫切 必駕切
Baxter gjoX mju paeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨʌX/ /mɨo/ /pˠaH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiɔX/ /mio/ /pᵚaH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiɔX/ /mio/ /paH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gɨə̆X/ /muə̆/ /paɨH/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiɔX/ /mio/ /paH/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭoX/ /mĭu/ /paH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/gi̯woX/ /mi̯u/ /paH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jù wú bà
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		geoi6 mou4 baa3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 毋 霸 霸
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wú bà pò
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mju › ‹ pæH › ‹ phæk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mo/ /*pˁrak-s/ /*rak/
English don"t have hegemony new moon

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 巨 毋 霸
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 7047 9301 181
Phonetic
component 		巨 母 霸
Rime
group 		魚 魚 暮
Rime
subdivision 		0 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		無 霸
Old
Chinese 		/*ɡaʔ/ /*ma/ /*praːɡs/
Notes 母轉註字

Proper noun

巨毋霸

  1. (humorous) Juwuba (name of a fictional giant, 1st century)

Noun

巨毋霸

  1. (figurative) Alternative form of 巨無霸 / 巨无霸 (jùwúbà, “big or invincible person or thing; Big Mac”)
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