苜

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

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

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

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “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