戊

戊

See also: 戍 and 戌

戊 U+620A, 戊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-620A ← 戉 [U+6209] CJK Unified Ideographs 戋 → [U+620B]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

戊 (Kangxi radical 62, 戈+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹 (IH), four-corner 5320₀, composition ⿰丿戈)

Derived characters

• 𡶙, 𢏌, 㧔, 𣳡, 𭸀, 𣆈, 𭩤, 𣬽, 𤇦, 𭷂, 𭸿, 𮁥, 𪾤, 𥍥, 𬗇, 𮊥, 𧉦, 䛋, 龯(𨱆), 𡏜, 𮨹, 𬵇, 𪌙, 𪉠, 𪗥, 𬏡
• 戌, 戍, 成, 𢦓, 𢦡, 𢘱, 𢦲, 咸, 𢦩, 𤬹, 戚, 𢦽, 𭑿, 戚, 𮍏, 𢧒, 𤋆, 𢧦, 𩒃, 𫨵, 𢧓, 𡶔, 茂, 𫁸, 𩂟, 𫈼, 𩬕

References

• KangXi: page 411, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11532
• Dae Jaweon: page 752, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1397, character 4
• Unihan data for U+620A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		戊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 戊
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (戊) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
茂	*mus
戊	*mus

Pictogram (象形)  : A halberd.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): wù (wu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨˋ

  (Chengdu, SP): wu⁴

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mou⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): vu
• Min Dong (BUC): muô
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bō͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhou⁷

• Wu (Wiktionary): hhu (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wù
    • Zhuyin: ㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wù
    • Wade–Giles: wu⁴
    • Yale: wù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wuh
    • Palladius: у (u)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵¹/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: wu⁴
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu²¹³/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mou⁶
    • Yale: mouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: mou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vu
    • Hakka Romanization System: vu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: vu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /vu⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: muô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muɔ²⁴²/
• 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: bhou⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bōu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bou¹¹/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: hhu (T3)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɦv̩ʷ²³/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 戊
Mandarin	Beijing	/u⁵¹/
	Harbin	/u⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/u⁵³/
	Jinan	/u⁵⁵/
	Qingdao	/vu⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/u⁵³/
	Xi'an	/vu⁴⁴/
	Xining	/v̩⁵³/
	Yinchuan	/vu⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/vu¹³/
	Ürümqi
	Wuhan	/u³⁵/
	Chengdu	/u¹³/
	Guiyang	/u²¹³/
	Kunming	/u²¹²/
	Nanjing	/u⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/u⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vu⁴⁵/
	Pingyao
	Hohhot	/vu⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/ɦu²³/
	Suzhou	/vu³¹/
	Hangzhou	/ɦu¹³/
	Wenzhou	/møy²²/
Hui	Shexian	/u²²/
	Tunxi	/u¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/u⁵⁵/
	Xiangtan	/u⁵⁵/
Gan	Nanchang	/u²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/vu⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/vu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mou²²/
	Nanning	/mu²²/
	Hong Kong	/mou²²/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/bɔ²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/muɔ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/mu⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/bou³¹/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/vu³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /məu^H/

Rime
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫候切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/məuH/
Pan Wuyun	/məuH/
Shao Rongfen	/məuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwH/
Li Rong	/muH/
Wang Li	/məuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)uʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mus/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	戊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wù
Middle Chinese	‹ muwH ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)uʔ-s/ (~ *m(r)uʔ)
English	5th heavenly stem
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	戊
Reading #	1/1
No.	13226
Phonetic component	戊
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	茂
Old Chinese	/*mus/
Notes	朱芳圃雲劉之初文

Definitions

戊

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

Coordinate terms

• (heavenly stems) 天干; 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸 ^{(Category: zh:Heavenly stems)}

Compounds

戊戌政變／戊戌政变

戊戌變法／戊戌变法 (Wùxū Biànfǎ)

異戊橡膠／异戊橡胶

Descendants

• → Zhuang: fouh

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #1657”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

戊

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Go-on: む (mu)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼ (bo)
• Kun: つちのえ (tsuchinoe, 戊)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
戊
ぼ Jinmeiyō
kan’yōon

From Middle Chinese 戊 (muw^H).

Pronunciation

• Kan’yōyomi
• (Tokyo) ぼ​ [bóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [bo̞]

Proper noun

戊(ぼ) • (Bo) 

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
戊
つちのえ Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

土 (Tsuchi, “Earth”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 兄 (e, “elder brother”)

Pronunciation

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) つちの​え [tsùchínóꜜè] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [t͡sɨ̥ᵝt͡ɕino̞e̞]

Proper noun

戊(つちのえ) • (Tsuchinoe) 

1. the fifth of the ten heavenly stems

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Korean

Hanja

戊 (eumhun 다섯째 천간 무 (daseotjjae cheon'gan mu))

1. Hanja form^? of 무 (“fifth heavenly stem”).

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Vietnamese

Han character

戊: Hán Nôm readings: mậu, mồ

1. 5th of the 10 heavenly stems