茉

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See also: 苿
茉 U+8309, 茉
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Translingual

Han character

茉 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 9 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 8 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿木十 (TDJ), four-corner 44904, composition ⿱艹末)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1026, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30841
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+8309

Chinese

trad. 茉
simp. # 茉

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 末
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (末) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
眛 *maːds, *mɯːds
沬 *maːds, *hmɯːds, *mɯds
佅 *mraːds
韎 *mreːds, *maːd
帓 *mraːd
粖 *meːd, *maːd
末 *maːd
昩 *maːd
秣 *maːd
靺 *maːd
眜 *maːd
抹 *maːd
妺 *maːd
怽 *maːd
沫 *maːd
袜 *maːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 末 (OC *maːd).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • bā/bāu/bāng/ba̍k/boa̍h - vernacular;
  • boa̍t - literary.
    Rime
    Character 茉
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 明 (4)
    Final (韻) 末 (64)
    Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Closed
    Division (等) I
    Fanqie 莫撥切
    Baxter mat
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/muɑt̚/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/mʷɑt̚/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/muɑt̚/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/mwat̚/
    Li
    Rong         		/muɑt̚/
    Wang
    Li         		/muɑt̚/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/muɑt̚/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		mò
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		mut6

    Definitions

    茉

    1. Only used in 茉莉 (mòlì).

    Japanese

    Kanji

    茉

    (Jinmeiyō kanji)

    1. white jasmine

    Readings

    • Go-on: まち (machi)、まつ (matsu)
    • Kan-on: ばつ (batsu)
    • Kun: み (mi)

    Korean

    Hanja

    茉 • (mal) (hangeul 말, revised mal, McCune–Reischauer mal, Yale mal)

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    茉: Hán Nôm readings: mạt, nhi

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