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Translingual
Stroke order
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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.)
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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
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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蟆
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*mraː
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鬕
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*mraːɡs
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饃
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*maːl
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模
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*maː
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摸
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*maː, *maːɡ
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嫫
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*maː
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謨
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*maː
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膜
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*maː, *maːɡ
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摹
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*maː
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暮
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*maːɡs
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慕
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*maːɡs
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募
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*maːɡs
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墓
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*maːɡs
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慔
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*maːɡs
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莫
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*maːɡ
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寞
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*maːɡ
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漠
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*maːɡ
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幕
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*maːɡ
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鏌
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*maːɡ
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瘼
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*maːɡ
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鄚
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*maːɡ
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瞙
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*maːɡ
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嗼
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*maːɡ, *mraːɡ
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塻
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*maːɡ
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貘
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*mraːɡ
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驀
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*mraːɡ
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *maːɡ) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 巾 (“cloth”).
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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幕
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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mù
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Middle Chinese
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‹ mak ›
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Old Chinese
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/*mˁak/
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English
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covering
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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幕
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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9257
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Phonetic component
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莫
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Rime group
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鐸
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Rime subdivision
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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莫
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Old Chinese
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/*maːɡ/
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Definitions
幕
- curtain; screen; tent
- scene
- 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 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 161.
Japanese
Kanji
幕
(Sixth grade kyōiku kanji)
- curtain
- act
Readings
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 幕 (MC mak).
Noun
幕 • (maku) ←まく (maku)?
- curtain
- 幕を下ろす
- maku o orosu
- to lower the curtains
- act (division of theatrical performance)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
幕 (eumhun 막 막 (mak mak))
- hanja form? of 막 (“curtain, screen, tent”)
Vietnamese
Han character
幕: Hán Nôm readings: mạc
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