慕

慕	U+6155, 慕 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6155

← 慔
[U+6154]

CJK Unified Ideographs

慖 →
[U+6156]

Translingual

Han character

慕 (radical 61, 心+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿日大心 (TAKP), four-corner 4433₃, composition ⿱莫㣺)

Related characters

募墓幕
模膜

References

KangXi: page 398, character 32

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11088

Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 27

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2340, character 3

Unihan data for U+6155

Chinese

simp. and trad.		慕

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 慕
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 (莫) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蟆	*mraː
鬕	*mraːɡs
饃	*maːl
模	*maː
摸	maː, maːɡ
嫫	*maː
謨	*maː
膜	maː, maːɡ
摹	*maː
暮	*maːɡs
慕	*maːɡs
募	*maːɡs
墓	*maːɡs
慔	*maːɡs
莫	*maːɡ
寞	*maːɡ
漠	*maːɡ
幕	*maːɡ
鏌	*maːɡ
瘼	*maːɡ
鄚	*maːɡ
瞙	*maːɡ
嗼	maːɡ, mraːɡ
塻	*maːɡ
貘	*mraːɡ
驀	*mraːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːɡs) : phonetic 莫 (OC *maːɡ) + semantic 㣺 (“heart”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mù (mu⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): bō͘
(Teochew, Peng'im): mo⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: mù
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄨˋ
  - Wade–Giles: mu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: muh
  - IPA ^(key): /mu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mou⁶
  - Yale: mouh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
  - IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bō͘
  - Tâi-lô: bōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔ³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: mo⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mŏ
  - IPA ^(key): /mo³⁵/

Middle Chinese: /muo^H/▼

Rime
Character	慕
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫故切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muo^H/
Pan Wuyun	/muo^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mo^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɔ^H/
Li Rong	/mo^H/
Wang Li	/mu^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/muo^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mù

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*(C.)mˤak-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*maːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	慕
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mù
Middle Chinese	‹ mu^H ›
Old Chinese	/*(C.)mˁak-s/
English	love; long for
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] 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	慕
Reading #	1/1
No.	9248
Phonetic component	莫
Rime group	暮
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	暮
Old Chinese	/*maːɡs/

Definitions

慕

to admire; to adore
to long for; to desire; to yearn

Compounds

不慕
仰慕 (yǎngmù)
企慕
傾慕／倾慕 (qīngmù)
嚮慕／向慕 (xiàngmù)
孺慕
弋者何慕
心慕手追
心慕筆追／心慕笔追
思慕 (sīmù)
怨慕
想慕
愛慕／爱慕 (àimù)
感慕
慕勢／慕势
慕化

慕古
慕名
慕名而來／慕名而来
慕容 (Mùróng)
慕效
慕義／慕义
慕羶
慕藺／慕蔺
慕道
慕顧／慕顾
戀慕／恋慕
敬慕
景慕 (jǐngmù)
欽慕／钦慕
歆慕 (xīnmù)

永慕
注慕
渴慕 (kěmù)
百慕達／百慕达 (Bǎimùdá)
終天之慕／终天之慕
羨慕／羡慕 (xiànmù)
羶慕
蟻慕／蚁慕
貪位慕祿／贪位慕禄
貪榮慕利／贪荣慕利
貪財慕勢／贪财慕势
趨財慕勢／趋财慕势
軫慕／轸慕
那達慕／那达慕 (nàdámù)
鄉風慕義／乡风慕义

Japanese

Kanji

慕

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

pining

Readings

Go-on: も (mo)
Kan-on: ぼ (bo, Jōyō)
Kun: したう (shitau, 慕う, Jōyō)

Korean

Hanja

慕 • (mo) (hangeul 모, revised mo, McCune–Reischauer mo, Yale mo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慕 (mộ, mồ)

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