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Translingual
Stroke order
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Han character
茂 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿戈竹 (TIH), four-corner 44253, composition ⿱艹戊)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1025, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30833
- Dae Jaweon: page 1485, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3188, character 2
- Unihan data for U+8302
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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茂
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*mus
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戊
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*mus
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mus) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 戊 (OC *mus).
Applying this character to mean “cyclopentadiene” in organic chemistry results from the decomposition of the character as an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) : 艸 (“radical for aromatic compounds”) + 戊 (“five-carbon ring”), since the conjugate base of cyclopentadiene (cyclopentadienyl anion) is aromatic.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Pinyin): mào, mòu (mao4, mou4)
- (Zhuyin): ㄇㄠˋ, ㄇㄡˋ
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): mong4 / mao4
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mau6
- Gan (Wiktionary): meu5
- Hakka
- (Sixian, PFS): meu
- (Meixian, Guangdong): miau4
- Jin (Wiktionary): mau3
- Northern Min (KCR): mē
- Eastern Min (BUC): mâiu
- Southern Min
- (Hokkien, POJ): bō͘ / biō
- (Teochew, Peng'im): mou6 / mong6
- Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): 6meu
- Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): mou4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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茂
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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13225
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Phonetic component
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戊
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Rime group
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幽
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Rime subdivision
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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茂
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Old Chinese
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/*mus/
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Definitions
茂
- ⁜ lush; luxuriant; dense; thick
- 茂盛 ― màoshèng ― luxuriant
- ⁜ excellent; splendid; talented
- (organic chemistry) cyclopentadiene
- 二茂鐵/二茂铁 ― èrmàotiě ― ferrocene
- Alternative form of 懋 (“to encourage”)
- a surname
Synonyms
- 幽鬱 / 幽郁 (yōuyù) (archaic)
- 繁茂 (fánmào)
- 肥美 (féiměi)
- 芊綿 / 芊绵 (qiānmián) (literary, of vegetation)
- 茂盛 (màoshèng)
- 萋萋 (qīqī) (literary)
- 菶菶 (běngběng) (literary)
- 葳蕤 (wēiruí) (literary)
- 豐茂 / 丰茂 (fēngmào)
- 趒 (Hokkien)
- 軫軫 / 轸轸 (zhěnzhěn) (literary)
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
茂
(Jōyō kanji)
- overgrown; luxuriant, thickly growing, lush
Readings
- Go-on: も (mo, Jōyō)
- Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
- Kun: しげい (shigei, 茂い)、しげし (shigeshi, 茂し)、しげる (shigeru, 茂る, Jōyō)、しげみ (shigemi, 茂み)、しげむ (shigemu, 茂む)、しみさぶ (shimisabu, 茂さぶ)、しみに (shimini, 茂に)、しみら (shimira, 茂ら)、もし (moshi, 茂し)
- Nanori: あり (ari)、いかし (ikashi)、し (shi)、しげ (shige)、しげい (shigei)、しげみ (shigemi)、たか (taka)、とお (tō)、とも (tomo)、とよ (toyo)、もち (mochi)、もと (moto)、ゆた (yuta)
Compounds
Proper noun
茂 • (Shigeru)
- a male given name
Korean
Hanja
茂 (eumhun 무성할 무 (museonghal mu))
- hanja form? of 무 (“thick, lush, dense”)
- hanja form? of 무 (“talented”)
Vietnamese
Han character
茂: Hán Nôm readings: mậu, ngồng
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