瞀

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瞀 U+7780, 瞀
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Translingual

Han character

瞀 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 弓大月山 (NKBU), four-corner 18604, composition ⿱敄目)

  1. to look at closely
  2. nearsighted
  3. dim
  4. indistinct vision

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 813, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23541
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1227, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2504, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7780

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 瞀

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (矛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
堥 *muː, *mu
蓩 *muːʔ, *moːɡ
猱 *ml'uː, *mljiwʔ, *ml'us
茅 *mruː
罞 *mruː, *muːŋ
蝥 *mruː, *mu, *mo, *moɡs
鶜 *mruː
瞀 *moːɡs, *mroːɡ
愗 *moːɡs
袤 *mus
雺 *mus, *mu, *muːŋ, *muːŋs
懋 *mus
楙 *mus
矛 *mu
蟊 *mu
髳 *mu, *muːŋ
鍪 *mu
鞪 *mu, *moːɡ
糅 *ml'us
腬 *ml'us, *mlju
柔 *mlju
揉 *mju
蹂 *mju, *mjuʔ, *mjus
鍒 *mju
騥 *mju
蝚 *mju
葇 *mju, *mjuʔ
鞣 *mju, *mjus
鰇 *mju
瑈 *mju
鶔 *mju
楺 *mjuʔ
煣 *mjuʔ, *mjus
輮 *mjuʔ, *mjus
韖 *mjuʔ
敄 *moʔ, *mos
務 *moɡs
鶩 *moɡs, *moːɡ
騖 *moɡs
婺 *moɡs
霚 *moɡs, *moːŋ
嵍 *moɡs
霧 *moɡs, *moːŋ
霿 *moːŋ, *moːŋs
楘 *moːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːɡs, *mroːɡ) : phonetic 敄 (OC *moʔ, *mos) + semantic 目 (“eye”)

Pronunciation 1

Rime
Character 瞀 瞀
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 侯 (137) 覺 (10)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) I II
Fanqie 莫候切 莫角切
Baxter muwH maewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/məuH/ /mˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/məuH/ /mᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/məuH/ /mɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/məwH/ /maɨwk̚/
Li
Rong 		/muH/ /mɔk̚/
Wang
Li 		/məuH/ /mɔk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mə̯uH/ /mɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mòu mò
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mau6 mok6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瞀
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mæwk ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁ<r>uk/
English troubled eyesight

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 瞀 瞀
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8808 8866
Phonetic
component 		矛 矛
Rime
group 		竇 屋
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		茂 邈
Old
Chinese 		/*moːɡs/ /*mroːɡ/

Definitions

瞀

  1. (literary, of eyesight) dim; dazzled; indistinct
  2. (literary) confused
  3. (literary) ignorant
  4. Used in 瞀瞀.
  5. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

瞀

  1. Used in 雊瞀 (“a former juridiction with its capital in Dapu Village, Dapu Town, Zhuolu County, Hebei Province”).

Japanese

Kanji

瞀

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. to look at closely
  2. nearsighted
  3. dim
  4. indistinct vision

Readings

  • On (unclassified): ぼう (bō)、も (mo)、む (mu)、ばく (baku)、まく (maku)

Korean

Hanja

瞀 (eum 무 (mu))

  1. dim
  2. cloudy
  3. ignorant
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