默

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See also: 黙
默 U+9ED8, 默
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9ED8
← 黗
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 黙 →

Translingual

Japanese 黙
Simplified 默
Traditional 默

Han character

默 (Kangxi radical 203, 黑+4, 16 strokes, cangjie input 田火戈大 (WFIK), four-corner 63334, composition ⿰黑犬)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1519, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 48063
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2052, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4744, character 11
  • Unihan data for U+9ED8

Chinese

trad. 默
simp. # 默
alternative forms 嘿
黙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 默
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (黑) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嚜 *mrɯɡs
嫼 *ʔmrɯːd
墨 *mlɯːɡ
默 *mlɯːɡ
纆 *mɯːɡ
黑 *hmlɯːɡ
潶 *hmlɯːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mlɯːɡ) : phonetic 黑 (OC *hmlɯːɡ) + semantic 犬 (“dog”)

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 默
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 德 (131)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫北切
Baxter mok
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mək̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mək̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mək̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mək̚/
Li
Rong 		/mək̚/
Wang
Li 		/mək̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mək̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mak6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 默
Reading # 1/1
No. 5107
Phonetic
component 		黑
Rime
group 		職
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		墨
Old
Chinese 		/*mlɯːɡ/

Definitions

默

  1. to be silent; to keep quiet; to keep still
  2. secretly; covertly; imperceptibly
  3. to write from memory
  4. Short for 默示錄／默示录 (Mòshìlù, “Revelation”).
  5. a surname
  6. (Internet slang, offensive, ethnic slur) (from 黑 (“black, negro”) +‎ 犬 (quǎn, “dog”)) nigger

Synonyms

Terms for the book of Revelation in different branches of Christianity
Branch Names Abbreviations
Protestant 啟示錄 啟
Roman Catholic 若望默示錄, 默示錄 默
Eastern Orthodox 約安之啟示錄

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai

黙

Kyūjitai

默

Kanji

默

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 黙)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

默 (eumhun 묵묵할 묵 (mungmukhal muk))

  1. Hanja form? of 묵 (“silent”).
  2. Hanja form? of 묵 (“quiet, still”).

Vietnamese

Han character

默: Hán Nôm readings: mặc, mắc

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