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U+5E55, 幕
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5E55

CJK Unified Ideographs

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

(Kangxi radical 50, +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 )

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.
simp. #
2nd round simp. 𫯜
alternative forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *maːɡ) : phonetic (OC *maːɡ) + semantic (cloth).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (103)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Baxter mak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɑk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/mɑk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/mɑk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mak̚/
Li
Rong
/mɑk̚/
Wang
Li
/mɑk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mɑk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mok6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9257
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːɡ/

Definitions

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

Compounds

References

  • ”, 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), “”, 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

(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, )

Etymology

Kanji in this term
まく
Grade: 6
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese (MC mak).

Noun

(まく) (makuまく (maku)?

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

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

(eumhun (mak mak))

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

Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: mạc

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