牟

牟 (Kangxi radical 93, 牛+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹手 (IHQ), four-corner 2350₀, composition ⿱厶牛)

• 侔, 哞, 㛌, 恈, 洠, 䏬, 桙, 毪, 眸, 蛑, 鉾(𫓴), 𩶢, 麰(𮮇), 劺, 𬼪, 𭷢, 𭷪, 𭷬, 𭷲, 鴾, 𡧷, 𦭷, 𥭏, 𨴍

• ム (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 697, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19928
• Dae Jaweon: page 1109, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1800, character 7
• Unihan data for U+725F

Historical forms of the character 牟
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Ideogram (指事): An ox (牛) with a symbol (now 厶) to represent its lowing.

“moo”

Onomatopoeic.

“to seek; to obtain”

By extension of 蛑 (OC *mu, “a type of pest that eats sprouts and roots”).

“to love”

Cognate with 慕 (OC *maːɡs, “to admire”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“look; appearance”

Variant of 模 (MC mu).

“spear”

Variant of 矛 (MC mjuw).

牟

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of cattle: moo

   alt. forms: 哞 (mōu)

2. to seek; to obtain; to seize

   alt. forms: 侔 (móu)

3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to exceed; to increase; to double
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) broad; great
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) longlasting
6. (Han dynasty, Sòng-Lǔ dialect) to love
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) look; appearance
8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) spear
9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 麰 / 𮮇 (móu, “barley”)

   • 貽我來牟、帝命率育。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     贻我来牟、帝命率育。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yí wǒ mài móu, dì mìng shuài yù.

     Thou didst confer on us the wheat and the barley, which God appointed for the nourishment of all;

10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 眸 (móu, “eyeball”)
11. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 堥 (“earthen pot”)
12. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 侔 (móu, “to be equal”)
13. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) Alternative form of 鍪 (móu, “helmet”)
14. (～國) (historical) Mou (an ancient state in modern-day Shandong, China)
15. a surname

    牟宗三  ―  Móu Zōngsān  ―  Mou Zongsan (20th-century Chinese philosopher)

牟

1. Used in place names.
2. a surname

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02487
• “牟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• (Min Nan) “牟”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. pupil (hole in middle of an iris)
2. moo (lowing sound of a cow)

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)

• Used in Old Japanese as a 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨mu⟩.

• Family Register Unified Characters (戸籍統一文字) 224330

牟 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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牟: Hán Nôm readings: mưu, màu, mâu, mầu, mào

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