貌

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See also: 皃
貌 U+8C8C, 貌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8C8C
← 貋
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 貍 →

Translingual

Han character

貌 (Kangxi radical 153, 豸+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 月竹竹日山 (BHHAU), four-corner 26210, composition ⿰豸皃)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1201, character 19
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36556
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3913, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8C8C

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 貌
2nd round simp. 皃
alternative forms 皃 ancient

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皃) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
貌 *mreːwɢs
皃 *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ
藐 *mawʔ, *mraːwɢ
邈 *mraːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːwɢs) : phonetic 豹 (OC *preːwɢs) + semantic 皃 (“looks”).

Originally written as 皃 (OC *mreːwɢs, *mreːwɢ), which is a pictogram (象形) of the face.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 貌
Mandarin Beijing /mɑu⁵¹/
Harbin /mau⁵³/
Tianjin /mɑu⁵³/
Jinan /mɔ²¹/
Qingdao /mɔ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mau³¹²/
Xi'an /mau⁴⁴/
Xining /mɔ²¹³/
Yinchuan /mɔ¹³/
Lanzhou /mɔ¹³/
Ürümqi /mɔ²¹³/
Wuhan /mau³⁵/
Chengdu /mau¹³/
Guiyang /mao²¹³/
Kunming /mɔ²¹²/
Nanjing /mɔo⁴⁴/
Hefei /mɔ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /mau⁴⁵/
Pingyao /mɔ³⁵/
Hohhot /mɔ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /mɔ²³/
Suzhou /mæ³¹/
Hangzhou /mɔ¹³/
Wenzhou /muɔ²²/
Hui Shexian /mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mo¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mau⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /maɯ⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /mɑu²¹/
Hakka Meixian /mau⁵³/
Taoyuan /mɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mau²²/
Nanning /mau²²/
Hong Kong /mau²²/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /mau²²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mɑu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /mau⁴⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /mãu³⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /mau³¹/
Rime
Character 貌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 肴 (90)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫敎切
Baxter maewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠauH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚauH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mauH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/maɨwH/
Li
Rong 		/mauH/
Wang
Li 		/mauH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mauH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maau6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 貌
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ maewH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁrawk-s/
English appearance, manner

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 貌
Reading # 1/1
No. 8932
Phonetic
component 		皃
Rime
group 		豹
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		皃
Old
Chinese 		/*mreːwɢs/
Notes 皃籀文

Definitions

貌

  1. facial appearance; facial features; looks
  2. outward appearance
  3. expression; countenance
  4. (Classical) Used by ancient scholars to define terms describing appearance: appearance of; description of
    焂，……光動貌。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    焂，……光动貌。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: 1037, 《集韻》 (Jiyun)
    Shú,...... Guāng dòng mào.
    Shú describes the appearance of a moving light.
  5. superficial; outer

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

貌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. facial appearance

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 貌 (MC maewH). Recorded as Middle Korean 모〯 (mwǒ) (Yale: mwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

貌 (eumhun 모양 모 (moyang mo))

  1. Hanja form? of 모 (“appearance”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

貌: Hán Nôm readings: mạo

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References

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