幕

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幕 U+5E55, 幕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E55
← 幔
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 幖 →

Translingual

Stroke order
Mainland China
and
Japan

(For Hong Kong
and Taiwan,
split
stroke 1
into two lines;
the RHS line
is written
after stroke 2
and
before stroke 3.)

Han character

幕 (Kangxi radical 50, 巾+11 in traditional Chinese, 巾+10 in mainland China and Japanese, 14 strokes in traditional Chinese, 13 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿日大月 (TAKB), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱莫巾)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 335, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9051
  • Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 749, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+5E55

Chinese

trad. 幕
simp. # 幕
2nd round simp. 𫯜
alternative forms 幙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 幕
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蟆 *mraː
鬕 *mraːɡs
饃 *maːl
模 *maː
摸 *maː, *maːɡ
嫫 *maː
謨 *maː
膜 *maː, *maːɡ
摹 *maː
暮 *maːɡs
慕 *maːɡs
募 *maːɡs
墓 *maːɡs
慔 *maːɡs
莫 *maːɡ
寞 *maːɡ
漠 *maːɡ
幕 *maːɡ
鏌 *maːɡ
瘼 *maːɡ
鄚 *maːɡ
瞙 *maːɡ
嗼 *maːɡ, *mraːɡ
塻 *maːɡ
貘 *mraːɡ
驀 *mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maːɡ) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 巾 (“cloth”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 幕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 鐸 (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 慕各切
Baxter mak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mak̚/
Li
Rong 		/mɑk̚/
Wang
Li 		/mɑk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mok6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 幕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mù
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mak ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁak/
English covering

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 幕
Reading # 1/1
No. 9257
Phonetic
component 		莫
Rime
group 		鐸
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		莫
Old
Chinese 		/*maːɡ/

Definitions

幕

  1. curtain; screen; tent
  2. scene
  3. a surname: Mu

Compounds

References

  • “幕”, 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–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “幕”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 161.

Japanese

Kanji

幕

(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. curtain
  2. act

Readings

  • Go-on: まく (maku, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
  • Kun: おおう (ōu, 幕う)、とばり (tobari, 幕)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
幕
まく
Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese 幕 (MC mak).

Noun

幕(まく) • (maku) ←まく (maku)?

  1. curtain
    幕(まく)を下(お)ろす
    maku o orosu
    to lower the curtains
  2. act (division of theatrical performance)

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

幕 (eumhun 막 막 (mak mak))

  1. hanja form? of 막 (“curtain, screen, tent”)

Vietnamese

Han character

幕: Hán Nôm readings: mạc

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